{"id":937208,"date":"2025-06-07T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937208"},"modified":"2025-06-07T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:33:29","slug":"as-upi-usage-soars-so-do-scams-heres-how-to-stay-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/07\/as-upi-usage-soars-so-do-scams-heres-how-to-stay-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"As UPI usage soars, so do scams \u2014 Here\u2019s how to stay protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2025, UPI transactions saw 33 percent jump in the number of transactions year-on-year and 23 percent growth in value terms. Overall, the number of UPI transactions stood at 18.68 billion in May 2025 amounting to \u20b924.77 lakh crore.<\/p>\n<p>What looks like a promising growth of digital transactions in terms of quantity as well as in volume has a flip side too: growing number of cyber frauds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2025, UPI transactions saw 33 percent jump in the number of transactions year-on-year and 23 percent growth in value terms. Overall, the number of UPI transactions stood at 18.68 billion in May 2025 amounting to \u20b924.77 lakh crore. What looks like a promising growth of digital transactions in terms of quantity as well as in volume has a flip side too: growing number of cyber frauds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937208","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}