Secure Mobile Phone: 3 thousand 800 phones were blocked in one week

A week after its launch, the Celular Seguro platform has already made it possible to block 3,896 stolen, stolen, missing or missing smartphones.According to a report published by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) on Tuesday (26). The service is available free of charge throughout Brazil.

To date, the program has received 1,658 phone theft alerts on national territory, according to the agency. 1,154 reports of device theft. There are also 851 missing records and requests to block 283 mobile phones “for various reasons”.

The tool, introduced by the federal government as a way to prevent theft and theft of smartphones, became available on the 19th One day later, 1,113 restrictive measures were registered. In this way, it is possible to report the crime and prevent further access by requesting that the device and banking applications be blocked immediately.

Again according to MJSP, São Paulo is the state with the highest number of blocks in Celular Seguro, with a total of 1,011 alerts to date. Rio de Janeiro ranks second with 453 notifications, followed by Pernambuco (286), Bahia (272) and Minas Gerais (259).

More than 700 thousand clicks

In the first seven days of the platform being operational, 700,697 people accessed the Celular Seguro applicationAccording to the ministry. However, only 513,098 visitors registered phone numbers that they wanted to block remotely in case the device was stolen, stolen or lost.

Access to the service, which requires registration on the Gov.br platform, can be done by providing your CPF. Each registered user appoints trusted contacts who will carry out the blocking operation on his behalf – 467.8 thousand trusted users are already registered, in addition to the fact that the victim can carry out the transaction using a secure computer.

To register with Celular Seguro, you just need to access the service’s website or the application with Android and iOS version and enter the requested data. If the phone is recovered, it is necessary to contact the operator, banks and other program partners to reactivate access..