THE Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has deactivated 43,500 SIM cards linked to mobile money fraud between January and June 2026, securing K19.8 million in the process. In an interview, Monday, ZICTA Corporate Communications Manager Hanford Chaaba said the statistics were a result of consumers being proactive in reporting scammers through the short code *707#. “Under the ICT Act, we have one of the key mandates of consumer protection. In the area of consumer protection, we are actually looking at one of the major issues that has taken centre stage in the last four to five years, and this has to do with fighting or rooting out mobile money scammers. Now, you remember very well that we did...