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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by nbsande on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:54PM (#46113821)
> With more than 5 million downloads since its launch, the app has helped block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones, while more than 30 million fraudulent connections have also been terminated.

I might be reading this wrong but these numbers seem very weird. Did more than half the people who downloaded the app block a stolen phone? And did each person who downloaded the app terminate 6 fraudulent connections?

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by SSLy on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:02PM (#46113924)
> And did each person who downloaded the app terminate 6 fraudulent connections?

That much is believable, if not on the low side. Spam there is intense.

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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by chloeburbank on Monday December 01, 2025 @11:12PM (#46117458)
It's not rare to have multiple phone numbers registered to a person's name fraudulently in India. Therefore, in this aspect the app will list out all the connections under the user's Aadhar (Indian Digital ID).
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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by blackoil on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:52AM (#46118758)
It's easy just use made up definitions for "helped", "fraudulent" and "terminated".
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Re:India orders mobile phones preloaded with government app ... by semiquaver on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @09:37AM (#46121611)
And also use made up numbers, just to be safe.
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