An official release states that the government has blacklisted ‘principal entities’ behind SMS headers that have been sent over 10,000 fraudulent messages over the past three months as part of a crackdown on SMS scammers. As part of the Sanchar Saathi initiative, the Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have taken decisive steps to prevent potential SMS fraud, which was launched by the Department of Telecom (DoT).
According to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), eight SMS headers are being misused to send fraudulent messages for committing cybercrime. In the past three months, the Department of Transport has taken down more than 10,000 fraudulent messages sent using eight headers. These messages belong to eight different Principal Entities (PEs).
There is a list of the 8 principal entities listed below, along with the 73 SMS headers they own and the 1522 SMS content templates associated with them. There is no longer any possibility of sending SMS via any telecom operator thanks to DoT’s steps, which have prohibited the use of any of these Principal Entities, SMS Headers, or templates.
According to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center, which is under the Ministry of Human Resources, eight SMS headers were misused to send fraudulent communications to commit cybercrime. The term ‘principal entity’ is commonly used in telecom parlance to refer to business or legal entities that send out commercial messages via SMS t
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