Multi-site operators close international SMS receiving service

Multi-site operators close international SMS receiving service

In order to prevent China residents from telecom fraud, three major operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, have officially announced that local users are prohibited from receiving overseas information by default. Multi-site operators shut down international SMS reception services.

Many operators shut down the international SMS reception service 1 Recently, many netizens spoke on social platforms and were frequently harassed by "international calls" and "overseas SMS". Obviously, there are no relatives abroad, but telephone calls and information are constantly flowing.

The endless stream of harassing information has seriously interfered with our own lives, which is annoying, and some netizens have suffered property losses due to fraudulent phone calls and text messages.

The good news is that operators have finally taken measures to rectify this phenomenon.

Recently, some users of Henan Unicom broke the news and received a short message announcement from Henan Unicom, showing that "the fraud cases caused by overseas fraudulent short messages are high. According to the work requirements of the Office of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Combating and Governing New Crimes in Telecommunication Networks in Henan Province, from May 7, 2022, the international and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS reception of Henan Unicom users will be closed by default. "

Henan Unicom said that if there is a real demand for international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS reception, it can send a message KTGJDX to 100 10 to apply for free opening, or open or close the international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS reception function through its own business hall and Unicom App.

In other words, the overseas SMS function has been turned off by default. Users of Henan Unicom must apply for opening this function if they want to receive overseas short messages. If it is not opened, you will not receive overseas text messages in the future.

It can be said that most domestic users do not often contact with overseas text messages and telephone calls, especially the elderly at home have low awareness of prevention, so it is no harm to close this channel. Closing the channel is equivalent to cutting off the communication channels of fraudulent short messages. I believe that there will be much less overseas fraud.

In the past, people wanted to block messy overseas calls or text messages, and they needed to rely on third-party apps to achieve it. Now that operators are shielding users, the strength is naturally far better than that of third-party apps.

Netizens said that such a good function should be turned on by default by the three major operators.

In fact, at present, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Liaoning and other places have closed the overseas SMS function by default.

As early as March 22nd, according to Gong Xin Weibo, Jiangxi Telecom, Jiangxi Mobile and Jiangxi Unicom issued a joint announcement. In order to strictly control overseas fraudulent short messages, since March 28, the international short message receiving service for users in Jiangxi Province, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan has been adjusted to be opened according to users' applications.

There are two ways for users to activate this function, one is to go to the business hall with a traditional ID card, and the other is to send "GJDXDG" to the service number of the corresponding operator. If the user wants to turn off this function in the future, just send "GJDXQX" to the service number of the corresponding operator.

In other provinces:

Implemented in Zhejiang from August 1: 00:

Guizhou has been implemented at 0: 00 on 20211.27;

Liaoning will be implemented from 0: 00 on June 25, 2022.

It is expected that the above-mentioned major provinces may be pilot provinces, and soon, operators in all provinces across the country will implement this initiative.

However, some people worry that it will be impossible to obtain the verification code login account of companies such as Apple or Microsoft.

In this regard, some netizens said:

The protocol of verification code is not point-to-point SMS, but it can be sent because the access number applied by SMS service providers in the SMS gateway of the operator's whole network is not abroad, and some foreign enterprises such as Apple and Microsoft have domestic access numbers.

Some enterprises buy SMS access service from domestic third parties. This SMS access code number with mass sending function has been put on record, and a security agreement has been signed. It will not send fraudulent SMS messages, so it will not affect everyone's receiving verification code. What is really affected is the short messages sent by friends and relatives abroad. ....

It is worth mentioning that communication operators should send short messages to inform all users before implementing this measure, so as not to bring trouble to users who are not clear about this measure.

Some netizens said that they had never received foreign verification code SMS before, and after various anti-fraud SMS reminders, they finally remembered that the overseas SMS function had been turned off by default.

Operators should especially remind users engaged in foreign trade that they have normal overseas business dealings and need to keep in touch at any time.

In addition, it is necessary to intercept overseas calls. Although it is easy for young people nowadays to see through overseas fraudulent phone calls, it is useless to open them because they are dialed overseas and will be constantly prompted by SMS security. Mobile phones belong to the situation that they will be interrupted no matter what they do. In order to intercept overseas calls, the three major operators have also introduced measures before.

In order to prevent telecom fraud among China residents, in March this year, Jiangxi Mobile, China Unicom and Telecom all officially announced that from March 28th, 2022, local users would be prohibited from receiving overseas information by default. In less than 30 days, the three major operators in Henan also announced that they would close users to receive overseas information by default.

If you want to open the overseas information receiving function, you can bring your ID number to the business hall or send a short message code to the operator. Jiangxi SMS code is "GJDXDG" and Henan SMS code is "KTGJDX". Send it to10086/10010/10001.

In just 30 days, the two operators in the populous province shut down users to receive overseas information by default. Has telecom fraud developed to such a serious extent that operators are forced to help users isolate fraudulent information from abroad in this way?

Telecom fraud, overseas gangs have always been the main force.

202 1 years ago 1 1 months ago, China police cracked more than 370,000 cases of telecommunication network fraud and arrested more than 549,000 suspects. Due to domestic pressure, many telecom fraud gangs began to move overseas. In 202 1 year alone, China eliminated 10600 people who left the country illegally in partnership with more than three people.

These shocking figures are enough to show that overseas gangs have become the main force of telecom fraud. What is even more frightening is that all kinds of fraud routines are constantly exposed, and scammers are forced to renovate their tricks and get closer to current events than ordinary netizens.

For example, when the concept of the meta-universe was introduced into China from overseas, and Chinese people didn't understand it, there were many fraud routines of the multi-universe. Many overseas fraud gangs promote hypercosmic games and hypercosmic funds by telephone and QQ group.

The disclosure of China's personal privacy information is so serious that in the eyes of swindlers, our identity is almost public. These scams keep up with current events or use schemes that are close to our lives. When scammers read our personal information, people who are less vigilant may be deceived. Overseas telecom fraud gangs are more troublesome to hunt down, and it is difficult to recover once property losses occur.

In response to rampant fraud gangs, relevant domestic departments have continuously introduced policies and programs to ensure the safety of residents' property. Previously, the relevant departments launched the National Anti-Fraud Center App, which can protect mobile phones and detect suspicious calls or text messages after granting the App permission. The National Anti-Fraud Center App also has a scam exposure channel that constantly exposes various tricks of scammers. If you often watch these scams, you can be vigilant.

In addition, some areas will also monitor abnormal calls from users' mobile phones. After receiving the fraudulent phone call lost by the courier, they will soon receive a phone call from the police station, reminding me that what I just received was a fraudulent phone call. However, the number of swindlers is too large, and hundreds of thousands are arrested a year, but more are hidden.

Although the scheme proposed by the operators can't completely eliminate local telecom fraud, it can at least shield fraudulent information from abroad and give residents an extra guarantee.

Blocking overseas text messages should not be across the board?

It is indeed simple and rude to directly block overseas SMS, but it is not suitable for all regions. Jiangxi and Henan have less foreign trade and more migrant workers. Many families are old people and children who stay at home. These people basically have no demand for overseas information, but they are the main targets of fraudsters and are suitable for blocking overseas information across the board.

Henan and Jiangxi directly blocked overseas SMS, which must have been considered by many parties. This measure is necessary to be popularized, especially in other non-coastal provinces. As for coastal provinces like Guangdong and Shanghai, they are the main windows for China's foreign trade. Although the three major operators have given plans to restore overseas short messages, not everyone knows that these areas cannot rashly block all overseas short messages, otherwise it may cause some adverse effects in the short term.

It is an effective scheme for operators to directly block overseas short messages, which needs to be widely promoted. However, each region should consider the local actual situation, and it is best to give priority to provinces and cities with more elderly people and children and less foreign trade. However, this scheme can only restrict overseas fraudulent information, and more fraudulent information comes from China.

Operators have many means, but they still need the efforts of all walks of life.

Since it is telecom fraud, it is natural to use various means of communication, and there are a large number of mobile phone cards in the hands of fraud gangs. For those people, operators have also joined hands with the police to carry out in-depth "card-breaking" actions. 2021* * 39,000 criminal gangs involved in the "two certificates" were destroyed, 420,000 criminal suspects were investigated, and more than 5,000 people in financial institutions and communication enterprises were investigated.

Operators and police are not soft on telecom fraud, and constantly crack down on telecom fraud criminal gangs through various means. Their efforts were not in vain. Compared with 2020, the number of telecom fraud cases in 20021year dropped significantly.

In fact, telecom fraud has been frequent many years ago, but in the Internet age, we have more channels to understand telecom fraud cases. I still remember that when I was in junior high school, I didn't need real-name authentication to buy a mobile phone card, but I could use it by paying. This situation undoubtedly cultivated the soil for telecom fraud. Later, the three major operators jointly requested the real-name authentication of mobile phone cards, which seriously dealt a blow to the arrogance of criminals.

With the advent of the Internet era, telecom fraud has become diversified. Although operators have continuously introduced various schemes and insisted on cracking down on fraud gangs, they are unable to conduct comprehensive screening in the face of numerous information flows. There are also some criminals who use their mobile phone numbers to register WeChat and QQ to implement telecom fraud. In this regard, Tencent has also introduced countermeasures, such as increasing reporting channels and strictly controlling new account registration.

Fraud is a very old profession, and there are always people who want to get something for nothing. Fraud can't disappear until the great harmony society is truly realized. It's just that our attitude towards fraud is changing and the means of punishing fraudsters are increasing. Now we not only have the police to crack down on fraud gangs, but also operators and other enterprises are doing their part, especially in the era of telecom fraud, operators shoulder great responsibilities.

Although we encounter telecom fraud, causing property losses, the main responsibility is not the operator, but it is inevitable that some people think that this is the responsibility of the operator. China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom are all making plans to crack down on telecom fraud. This campaign against telecom fraud will last for a long time. I believe that the people's police will not give up, operators will not give up, and more communication companies will join in and contribute their own strength.

Many operators shut down the international SMS reception service. I believe many netizens have been frequently harassed by "international calls" and "overseas short messages". In desperation, they can only hack harassment information and phone calls one by one, or intercept them through third-party apps.

Not long ago, Henan Unicom, Henan Mobile and Henan Telecom jointly issued the announcement of "International, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS Receiving Service".

The announcement pointed out that from 0: 00 on May 7, 2022, the international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS receiving services were adjusted to be opened according to user applications. By then, the international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS receiving functions will be turned off by default.

For users in Henan province who need to receive short messages from international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, they can bring their ID cards to local mobile, China Unicom and telecom companies to handle their own business halls or send short messages to confirm the free opening.

It is worth mentioning that many provinces and cities (Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Liaoning and Hebei) have implemented this operation.

According to the report of the Central Broadcasting Network, in April this year, Sui Jing, director of the Network Security Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in 20021year, 45,000 fraudulent code numbers and domain names1040,000 were dealt with according to law, and fraudulent telephone calls1950,000 and fraudulent short messages1400,000 were intercepted.

Sui Jing said that an international entry-exit SMS early warning system will be built to realize real-time active reminder of international incoming calls and SMS messages, raise people's awareness of preventing cross-border fraud, and at the same time launch an "anti-fraud business card" to realize the authoritative marking of calling numbers and effectively identify the authenticity of numbers.