Mobile Phones: Fraud — Written Question

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with (a) O2, (b) Vodafone, (c) EE and (d) other mobile network providers on tackling (i) SMS and (ii) calls-based scams; and whether she has plans to introduce stronger

Answer

Dan Jarvis

We work extremely closely with mobile network providers, regulators, law enforcement and consumer groups to close the vulnerabilities that criminals exploit, and stop scam messages and calls reaching the UK public.We are currently developing a second Tele...

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