JUST IN: Danbatta Directs Telecoms Operators to Secure Platform Against E-Fraud Activities

The Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) has directed telecommunications operators to secure their network against the activities cybercrooks whose activities are currently creating lack of confidence by the consumers.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta who gave the directive today in Lagos, South West, Nigeria lamented that Nigerians are losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters who are taking advantages of the vulnerabilities in their platform to defruad them.

Danbatta who spoke at the Second Quarter Industry Consumer Advisory Forum(ICAF) with the theme: ‘Combating E-Fraud on Telecom Platform: Building Consumer Confidence In The Digital Economy’ said the alarming impact of e-fruad crisis on the digital economy is disturbing.

To buttress how painful the activities of e-fruad could be, he said, that he recently lost $5000 of his legitimate earnings to the criminals noting that the network needs to be kept safe for all.

He told the telecoms operators to equity their network with tools that will make them robust and secure the activities of the consumers.

According to him, an unsecured network put the personal data of Nigerians at risk stressing that the idea of type approval equiptment policy of the NCC was due to the need to ensure that they don’t undermine the security and safety Nigerans.

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