In Mozambique, more than 20,000 telephone scams occur every three months, according to the Director of the Telecommunications Traffic Communication Unit at the Communications Regulatory Authority.

As Adilson Gomes explained, these frauds are due to unreliable registrations of telecommunications service subscribers.

Cited today by Rádio Moçambique, more than half of the subscriber registrations in the country are irregular.

"Combined with this, today we have an average of no less than 3,000 frauds per month. In one quarter we can have more than 20,000 cases of fraud. Of the analysis made, more than fifty percent are records that don't provide the reliability we want," he said.

The official noted that some state institutions, such as the Attorney General's Office and the National Criminal Investigation Service, experience constraints when, in the course of their work, they investigate someone's record and come across someone else's data, i.e. without a match. "That person's number is their grandmother's ID card, and sometimes they don't even have a cell phone."

On the other hand, he said that devices programmed to commit fraud are circulating in Mozambique.

"We have more and more fraudulent, pirated, cloned and stolen devices. I take the phone, clone the registration and have two phones with the same license plate," he said.

As a result, it will begin mandatory, in-person biometric registration in January next year, and its regulations are already being disseminated throughout the country.

"The register will cover all subscribers, any Mozambican citizen who wants to sign up for a subscription telecommunications service," said Adilson Gomes.