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Break down the your-number-will-be-disconnected call, the remote-access app trap, and check your SIM count against the DoT per-person limit.
The SIM block warning scam is a vishing script that opens with a recorded call claiming your mobile number will be disconnected within hours, then escalates through a fake TRAI or police officer to a remote-access app install and a money transfer. This explainer maps all eight stages, scores the call you received on a weighted twelve-point checklist, and checks your genuine SIM count against the Department of Telecommunications ceiling of nine connections per person — six in the Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and North East service areas — which is the real rule the script misrepresents.
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Nine connections per person, six in J&K, Assam and the North East — checkable yourself on Sanchar Saathi.
Shows what screen view, device control and unattended access each hand over during a fake verification.
Five things listed that never happen in any lawful telecom or police process in India.
No. TRAI is a regulator and does not issue, verify or disconnect individual mobile connections — that is the licensed operator's job. A genuine disconnection notice comes from your own operator through their registered SMS header and app, and gives you days to act, not two hours on a recorded call telling you to press a key.
The Department of Telecommunications caps mobile connections at nine per person against a single proof of identity, reduced to six in the licensed service areas of Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and the North East. You can see every connection issued against your identity document free of charge on the TAFCOP facility at sancharsaathi.gov.in and flag any you do not recognise.
No. Indian law has no concept of digital arrest, and no police force, CBI, ED or court conducts an interrogation, detention or arrest over a video call. Being told to stay on camera, remain alone in a room and not contact family is the fraud itself, not a legal procedure.
Disconnect the internet, uninstall the app, and then change your banking, UPI and email passwords from a different device that was never in the session. Call your bank to stop transactions, report on helpline 1930 and at cybercrime.gov.in, and report the originating number through the Chakshu facility on Sanchar Saathi. Assume anything shown on screen during the session, including one-time passwords, was seen.