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To curb the menace of phone users getting promotional messages from unregistered marketers, the telecom regulator has directed all mobile operators to reverify registered headers and message templates of telemarketers on the distributed ledger technologies (DLT) platform to ensure they are not misused.

Indian mobile consumers may finally get some respite from phishing and cyber frauds, which lead to estimated financial losses of Rs 1,000-1,500 crore every month.