Article: Emergency laws to curb rise in telephone fraud.(Brief Article)

Telecoms regulators are to clamp down on premium-rate scams by imposing new regulations on service providers.

Emergency measures to curb phone fraud are to be introduced within weeks, according to a spokesman for the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS).

At present, once money is transferred from a network to a service provider, there is no way of returning it. But the proposed changes would allow customers to claim refunds if they have been a victim of fraud.

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