Óscar López, ministre for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, announced that by the end of February it will be approved a law that aims to combat cyber-scams performed via phone calls. Therefore, there will be forbidden to make commercial calls with a number that does not start with 800 or 900.

On Rac1, the minister stated that people “will not be able to receive a commercial call from a mobile phone, which is what is happening today. We receive calls from a mobile phone, we think it's someone we know, a relative, we don't know who it is, and then it turns out to be a commercial call. This will be prohibited by ministerial order.”

According to El País, the regulation will prohibit the use of mobile numbers for commercial calls, this way it will be easier to detect frauds if they receive a call from a number of this type. It is also expected to be created a database, managed by the National Comission of Markets and Competition.

Those who don comply with the law, may face the consequences od a report to the Telecommunications Consumer Service Office, where sanction may be imposed, underlined the Óscar Lopez.