19.04.2023, 07:54
Belarus and Russia have signed an agreement on combating telephone fraud
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS Moscow and Minsk have signed agreements on joint actions to regulate communication networks and international traffic. In particular, according to Kommersant, we are talking about the fight against telephone fraud. Now a third of fraudulent calls coming from abroad come to Russia from Belarus, experts say. Cooperation can help solve the problem, but will create an additional burden on telecom operators, they warn.
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of Belarus will jointly fight fraud (telephone fraud) on their networks, the Russian ministry told Kommersant. This is fixed by one of the international agreements signed on April 18 at the ICT forum "TIBO-2023" in Minsk. The second signed document, according to representatives of the Ministry of Finance, is a framework document and is dedicated to the "unification of regulatory legal acts in the field of telecommunications" of the Union states.
The Ministry assured that the implementation of the anti-fraud agreement will not affect the commercial activities of telecom operators:
"It will allow us to develop an effective system to limit the passage of fraudulent international traffic on the communication networks of the two states."
MTS, Vimpelcom, MegaFon and Tele2 declined to comment. Rostelecom believes that the Russian-Belarusian signing as a whole "is an action aimed at clearing traffic as part of measures to cancel roaming in the Union State."
At the end of January, Russia launched a unified platform for verifying phone calls "Antifraud" to identify and combat calls from fake numbers that fraudsters use to deceive subscribers and withdraw money from their accounts. All key Russian operators have started connecting to it, now the system controls the traffic they exchange. Due to the threat of a fine, large market players also began to disconnect small companies from working on their networks that did not connect to the state system (see Kommersant of March 6).
The launch of the "Anti-fraud" was associated with increased risks in Russia due to fraudulent calls, which intensified by the spring of last year. Only by the end of May 2022, the share of mobile users who received calls from scammers from unknown numbers reached 12.5% of the total number of subscribers. Experts noted that most of the attackers settled in neighboring states (see Kommersant of June 22).
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, for its part, warned citizens at the end of February about the spread of fraud on the territory of the republic, based on calls from replacement numbers that look similar to the phones of state institutions, BelTA reported.
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of Belarus will jointly fight fraud (telephone fraud) on their networks, the Russian ministry told Kommersant. This is fixed by one of the international agreements signed on April 18 at the ICT forum "TIBO-2023" in Minsk. The second signed document, according to representatives of the Ministry of Finance, is a framework document and is dedicated to the "unification of regulatory legal acts in the field of telecommunications" of the Union states.
The Ministry assured that the implementation of the anti-fraud agreement will not affect the commercial activities of telecom operators:
"It will allow us to develop an effective system to limit the passage of fraudulent international traffic on the communication networks of the two states."
MTS, Vimpelcom, MegaFon and Tele2 declined to comment. Rostelecom believes that the Russian-Belarusian signing as a whole "is an action aimed at clearing traffic as part of measures to cancel roaming in the Union State."
At the end of January, Russia launched a unified platform for verifying phone calls "Antifraud" to identify and combat calls from fake numbers that fraudsters use to deceive subscribers and withdraw money from their accounts. All key Russian operators have started connecting to it, now the system controls the traffic they exchange. Due to the threat of a fine, large market players also began to disconnect small companies from working on their networks that did not connect to the state system (see Kommersant of March 6).
The launch of the "Anti-fraud" was associated with increased risks in Russia due to fraudulent calls, which intensified by the spring of last year. Only by the end of May 2022, the share of mobile users who received calls from scammers from unknown numbers reached 12.5% of the total number of subscribers. Experts noted that most of the attackers settled in neighboring states (see Kommersant of June 22).
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, for its part, warned citizens at the end of February about the spread of fraud on the territory of the republic, based on calls from replacement numbers that look similar to the phones of state institutions, BelTA reported.
Комментарии