{"id":883994,"date":"2024-12-04T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=883994"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T05:11:44","slug":"as-upi-frauds-net-rs-2145-cr-in-less-than-three-years-experts-call-for-stronger-laws-against-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/04\/as-upi-frauds-net-rs-2145-cr-in-less-than-three-years-experts-call-for-stronger-laws-against-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"As UPI frauds net Rs 2,145 cr in less than three years, experts call for stronger laws against cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), hailed as a global benchmark for payment innovation, has revolutionised digital transactions with its seamless QR code and UPI ID system. A concerning rise in fraudulent activities has accompanied this rapid adoption. <\/p>\n<p>In the ongoing financial year (2024-25) until September, people across the country reported losing a staggering Rs 485 crore across 6.32 lakh cases of UPI-related fraud, according to data given by Pankaj Chaudhary, Union minister of state for finance, in Parliament on November 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), hailed as a global benchmark for payment innovation, has revolutionised digital transactions with its seamless QR code and UPI ID system. A concerning rise in fraudulent activities has accompanied this rapid adoption. In the ongoing financial year (2024-25) until September, people across the country reported losing a staggering Rs 485 crore across 6.32 lakh cases of UPI-related fraud, according to data given by Pankaj Chaudhary, Union minister of state for finance, in Parliament on November 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}