The government has been seeking to stem the rise of such calls, including those in which scammers pose as representatives of companies like FedEx and Blue Dart and extract sensitive financial information by sending phishing links under the guise of recovering lost packages.
“All promotional voice calls from unregistered callers/unregistered telephone operators using telecom resources will be stopped immediately,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement shared by the government.
Unregistered callers will be blacklisted for up to two years, the statement said, adding that telecom service providers will be required to send updates on actions taken on fraudulent calls on the 1st and 16th of each month.
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