According to reports, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is developing a live finger detector (LFD) device system to eliminate silicon thumbs, prevent SIM card fraud, and stop online crimes.
According to documentation from the Interior Ministry, it has been discovered that criminals employ a wide range of techniques to deceive vulnerable civilians into giving their money to a fake bank account using social media networks.
What is LFD Technology?
Based on an analysis of the dynamic and static image characteristics of the fake fingers and how they can be distinguished from those of live fingers, live finger detection (LFD) technology is used to detect real fingers.
Fake fingers may easily be differentiated from real fingers using an advanced analytic technique to find anomalies in the dynamically changing pattern of fingerprint pictures and many static aspects of liveness or unnaturalness of fingers.
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Live fingers demonstrate changes in patterns of area, intensity, and movement as they gradually make contact with the sensor surface, whereas imitation fingers produce unnaturally changing patterns of divided regions, partially dark areas, distorted boundary shapes, and significant core part movement. That would aid in detecting fraud and phony fingerprints.
Mobile SIMs that have been fraudulently activated using methods like silicon thumb impressions and other approaches are the main tools utilized in these scams. Under Section 17 of the PECA-2016, the PTA has the responsibility to check and monitor illicit SIMs.
Financial fraud is a crime, and the FIA-CCW has received 21,259 complaints about it this year, in accordance with sections 13 and 14 of the PECA-2016.
