The Home Ministry has setup the ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ (I4C) to deal with all types of cyber crimes in the country. ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System’ was launched in the year 2021 under I4C for immediate reporting of financial fraud and to prevent misappropriation of funds by cyber criminals.
The Union Minister said that till now an amount of more than Rs 3,431 crore has been saved in more than 9.94 lakh complaints. He said that the government and telecom service providers have prepared a system to identify and block international calls coming from fake Indian numbers.
Kumar said that in recent cases there have been cases of fake digital arrest, FedEx scam, calls impersonating government and police officials etc. international fake calls have been made by cyber criminals. Instructions have also been issued to telecom service providers to block such international fake calls.
A Cyber Fraud Mitigation Center (CFMC) has been set up at I4C, where representatives from major banks, financial intermediaries, payment aggregators, TSPs, IT intermediaries and law enforcement agencies of States/UTs will take immediate action to combat cyber crime and Working together for cooperation.
I4C, in collaboration with banks and financial institutions, has also launched a suspect registry to identify cyber criminals. The government has also launched a new feature called ‘Report and Check Suspect’, which gives people the option to search I4C’s collection of cybercriminals through ‘Suspect Search’.
