The goal is to prevent fraud by cyber criminals, by using numbers with prefixes that are recognizable by users.
Public companies and entities will be within the period of 3 months Commercial calls Via mobile According to a ministerial order of the Government of Spain, already signed, including a package of measures to avoid Imperonation scams Identity made via mobile telephony or messages (SMS).
Yes, however, they can make commercial calls from 900 or 800, numbers that have so far only been allocated to receive them, based on an order from the Ministry of Digital Transformation and for the public function of the government of Spain, that that Will do this week within 20 days of the publication in the official State Gazette (BOE).
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Its owner, Óscar LópezExplained, in statements to journalists, these measures, including the mandatory that has been set to telecommunications operators of blocking calls and SMS with numbering that has not been attributed to a last customer or an operator has been established.
It is based on the basis that if there are no real customers behind the call, this is an indication that you are trying to get an advantage with the imitation of identity. Operators must block international calls that simulate from the Spanish state.
In addition, telecommunications operators will also have to Blocking of international descent This simulates that it originated in a Spanish number, except that of customers in commemoration (roaming). This measure has been resolved, taking into account that the so -comprehensive fraudulent fraudulent that usually come from abroad, such as the Netherlands or the United Kingdom, from which evoking with Spanish numbering are simulated.
On the other hand, the operators will be mandatory Blocking messagesthat instead of a telephone number they are assigned to an alphanumeric code, provided that the owners are not registered in the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC).
This order will come into effect within 20 days of the publication in the BOE, although some of the measures will be mandatory within a longer period of time, taking into account the technical complexity that must be applied. Failure to comply with these measures can receive a sanction of a maximum of 2 million euros.
The reform of the General Telecommunications Act, which forbids companies to send commercial information without the user’s previous permission, came into force in June 2023, but companies have found a legal meeting to continue to perform their commercial activity. With the order that has been signed today, the Spanish government hopes to put an end to the so -driven spam.
Source: EITB
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