<p>In a major action, the Department of Telecommunication has disconnected 21,031 SIMs taken using forged documents.</p>.<p>The Maharashtra Licensed Service Areas (LSA) carried out the analysis for its subscriber database and has identified a total of 21031 SIM which were taken on forged documents. </p>.<p>“Action is being taken to book the culprits and SIM sellers who are involved in such fraudulent activities. Such PoS/SIM sellers are being blacklisted by and across Service providers. Police complaints are being made for further investigation and taking necessary action on the culprits,” DoT officials said. </p>.<p>It is well known that SIMs bought using forged documents are involved in the majority of cybercrimes.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/bengaluru-crime/finance-firm-employee-loses-rs-around-45-lakh-to-cyber-fraudsters-1212313.html" target="_blank">Finance firm employee loses Rs around 45 lakh to cyber fraudsters</a></strong></p>.<p>“Such is the expertise level of fraudsters that they have created fake proof of identity / address documents, which can never be detected by human beings by analyzing a single case in isolation,” officials said. </p>.<p>The DoT had taken up the challenge for preventing cybercrimes by conceptualizing and implementing an innovative and indigenous Artificial Intelligence (AI) based and Facial Recognition powered solution (ASTR) – the NextGen platform for detecting and weeding out fake/forged SIMs.</p>.<p>The vision of the ASTR project is to analyze the whole subscriber base of all telecom Service Providers (TSPs) combined and cleanse the mobile subscriber database by identifying non-bonafide mobile numbers. The system uses subscriber images and a subscriber database provided by the Telecom Subscriber Providers (TSP) to DoT, to detect the same face and different names.</p>
<p>In a major action, the Department of Telecommunication has disconnected 21,031 SIMs taken using forged documents.</p>.<p>The Maharashtra Licensed Service Areas (LSA) carried out the analysis for its subscriber database and has identified a total of 21031 SIM which were taken on forged documents. </p>.<p>“Action is being taken to book the culprits and SIM sellers who are involved in such fraudulent activities. Such PoS/SIM sellers are being blacklisted by and across Service providers. Police complaints are being made for further investigation and taking necessary action on the culprits,” DoT officials said. </p>.<p>It is well known that SIMs bought using forged documents are involved in the majority of cybercrimes.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/city/bengaluru-crime/finance-firm-employee-loses-rs-around-45-lakh-to-cyber-fraudsters-1212313.html" target="_blank">Finance firm employee loses Rs around 45 lakh to cyber fraudsters</a></strong></p>.<p>“Such is the expertise level of fraudsters that they have created fake proof of identity / address documents, which can never be detected by human beings by analyzing a single case in isolation,” officials said. </p>.<p>The DoT had taken up the challenge for preventing cybercrimes by conceptualizing and implementing an innovative and indigenous Artificial Intelligence (AI) based and Facial Recognition powered solution (ASTR) – the NextGen platform for detecting and weeding out fake/forged SIMs.</p>.<p>The vision of the ASTR project is to analyze the whole subscriber base of all telecom Service Providers (TSPs) combined and cleanse the mobile subscriber database by identifying non-bonafide mobile numbers. The system uses subscriber images and a subscriber database provided by the Telecom Subscriber Providers (TSP) to DoT, to detect the same face and different names.</p>