Ministry of Internal Affairs signed a contract for the development of a service to combat telephone fraudsters

In early May 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia announced the development of a service to combat telephone fraud. A decision called "Anti-Schennik" is planned to be created before the end of the year.

According to TASS, citing the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the contract for the development of the service was concluded with the developer at the end of March 2021. At the same time, the name of the performer was not named in the department, but they reported the cost of work - 44.9 million rubles. It is noted that initially development costs were estimated at 62.9 million rubles.

The Antishennik module, which is planned to be introduced into the mobile application of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will notify the user that they are calling or writing SMS from the number using which illegal actions were previously committed. Such a call can be blocked. In addition, the "White List" appears in the application, which will ignore the application's blocking of an incoming call, SMS or MMS messages, as well as the possibility of issuing warning notifications.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs signed a contract to create a service to combat telephone fraudsters

The new mobile service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to combat telephone fraud will need to be constantly updated, said State Duma deputy, member of the committee on security and anti-corruption Adalbi Shkhagoshev, commenting on the development of the ministry.

Fraudsters use any direction - from healthcare, to any type of payment. Telephone scammers will come up with various fraudulent schemes every day using modern digital technologies, "he told RT.

The general director of the ANO "Digital Platforms" Arseniy Shcheltsin in an interview with Gazeta.Ru named two key aspects that are important in assessing the prospects for the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The first, regarding the effectiveness of the call determination function itself, will be effective or ineffective depending on the formats of its implementation. I would like to recommend that the Ministry of Internal Affairs introduce a single standard so that other services that also retain information about annoying or spam calls would transfer them to the department. This would completely increase the effectiveness of the service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they can quite realize this - at the expense of state standards, "the expert noted.[1][2]

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