UK carriers to block spoofed phone numbers in fraud crackdown

Under a new Telecoms Charter, the UK government and major mobile carriers have committed to upgrading networks within a year to eliminate caller-ID spoofing, deploy advanced call-tracing, boost data sharing with police, and improve victim support and response times to reduce phone fraud; the announcement cites large volumes of scam texts and calls and positions the measures as a major step to make the UK harder for scammers to operate.