Recognising calls from Gov or Regulatory body or Financial entity

Question 1

What does the phone number from such agencies start with ?

Answer 1

160 followed by 0 and 6 other digits

or 160 followed by 1 and 6 other digits

Question 2

Who has introduced this ?

Answer 2

Dept of Telecom

Question 3

How does this help ?

Answer 3

To help fight against fraudulent calls

Question 4

Any legitimate telemarketing call should start from which digits ?

Answer 4

180 or 140

Question 5

Which portal of Dept of Telecom is to fix fraudulent and deceptive calls ?

Answer 5

Sanchar Saathi

Chakshu feature to report fraud SMS or calls