Proposals for a draft resolution of the rules of the Russian Federation, which are included in the list of exceptions in the rules for centralized management of a public network.
According to him, Roskomnadzor includes car rental services and phone number substitution in the list of national threats. The document should be adopted this year, and it will come into force in March 2024.
The ban on renting phone numbers will help reduce the number of fraudulent calls. The same goes for spam and unwanted advertising.
Separate and the same virtual numbers of the Republican population, which makes it possible to identify the sources of spam messages or fraudulent messages.
— Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council, Senator Artem Sheikin
According to the new version, short-term rental services for personal numbers will recognize the obligation to operate the network and block in Russia. They are actively used by scammers to bypass identification.
The respondents believe that this initiative will greatly reduce the number of telephone scams, but there is a downside. Russians often use such services to, for example, pay for foreign services. In addition, this is “not a panacea” – it will not work to completely eradicate telephone fraud. [Известия]
Source: Iphones RU
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