More than 89,600 mobile subscribers spreading spam were blocked in the last six months of 2020. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Five major mobileservice providers - Viettel, VinaPhone, MobiFone, Vietnamobile, and the virtualnetwork I-Telecom blocked more than 89,600 mobile subscribers spreading spamcalls in the last six months of 2020, according to the Department of Telecomunder the Ministry of Information and Communications.
In December 2020 alone, the providers handled17,290 subscribers, of which 7,844 by Viettel (45 percent), 7,301 by VinaPhone(42 percent), 1,155 by MobiFone (7 percent), 868 by I-Telecom (5 percent), and122 by Vietnamobile (1 percent).
A representative from the department said thatin the future, it will work closely with the mobile service suppliers toenhance the public and businesses’ awareness of spam numbers and spam messages,encouraging them to use registered SIM cards.
Spam calls and messages are delivered mostly to advertiseproducts and services, such as offers to sell houses, apartments, andcondotels, and include invitations to buy insurance policy, use financialservices and register for English training courses.
Thesubjects that deliver spam calls and messages use sophisticated technicalmeasures which change regularly to fool appropriate agencies. It can bedifficult dealing with this kind of violation.
Statemanagement agencies have called on people to join forces with agencies andtelecom carriers to prevent calls.
Earlier in last July, the departmentcoordinated with the subscribers to launch a number of technical solutionsusing Big Data and Machine Learning to identify subscribers with signs ofspreading spam calls and messages./.
