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This new tool should essentially make it possible to put an end to number theft, also called “spoofing”.
A first stone in the house. From October 1, a new application intended to improve consumer protection against the scourge of telephone scams will come into force. The weapon that the authorities are planning to prevent criminals from obtaining numbers, especially in the context of the fake bank advisor scam, as Julien Lassalle, head of payment methods, has recently recalled in our columns at the Bank of France.
Ideally, from next month, telephone operators will be insured “real numbers” showing the caller ID on the phone screen or receiving a message. And this, in the application of the Naegelen law that aims to regulate the telephone collection and fight against fraudulent calls, adopted on July 24, 2020. The reason? That fraudsters cannot request the numbers of banking establishments or public organizations such as Social Security.
The law now requires operators to be a guarantor of the authenticity of the numbers and, if not, to be able to“disruptive delivery” of a call or message from one phone to another. On the side of the owner of the line, so it will not be a noticeable change, because the fraudulent calls should be normal. “combine” even before any bell rings. In addition, the word we have chosen provides that “Operators ensure interoperability of implemented authentication mechanisms”. To this end, the implementation of the caller ID authentication system can “Rely on the technical information developed jointly by the operators”.
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A program is currently limited
A special complex management system of management to be installed, according to the French Telecoms Federation (FFT), which has expressed a number of doubts about the feasibility and effectiveness of this certification. And this, to the extent that there are more than 200 operators in France, including the best known, Bouygues, SFR or Free, but also La Poste Mobile and other players in the commercial market. “It is very long and very complicated to do, it requires a lot of investment, both technical and human, from the operators”confirms Romain Bonenfant. The director of FFT explained that the French operators represented were forced to work hand in hand, to communicate with each other and to imagine a common system to develop this unique solution that does not exist anywhere else.
With a challenge, of sharing all the telephone numbers in France, and their owner. “That’s clearly the number one engineering problem: how do we create a common system?”remember the engineer. To do this, depending on what is already in the case of the request for transferring the telephone number, everyone agrees to play the game.
However, the engineer already pointed out the limits of the system. According to him, the authentication device “doesn’t work on all technologies” and will not be able to apply – initially – neither to the copper network, nor to the mobile network, nor even to commercial telephone networks. “On October 1, we will begin testing cuts on unauthenticated calls from landline to landline outside of copper lines”. A “Chapter One” which consists of putting the basics of the system, before its work is more advanced, to the mobile network in particular, knows Romain Bonenfant.
So don’t worry, if the unwanted cold calling continues for a while: “The work continues”assure the operators, sometimes we are separated by the inventiveness of the fraudsters, and the speed with which the latter succeed in finding new solutions to circumvent the blockages put in place. Sometimes it’s useless. And if there is no complete firewall system, the French Telecoms Federation (FFT) calls everyone to be very careful and emphasizes the need to refuse telephone subscribers. And beat out: “We must understand that a bank advisor, for example, will not ask for one credit card code or another over the phone.”
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