{"id":952595,"date":"2025-08-05T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952595"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:16:45","slug":"nearly-400k-sims-axed-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/05\/nearly-400k-sims-axed-for-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 400k SIMs axed for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The telecom department&#8217;s latest initiative to categorise high-risk fraud accounts has caught and blacklisted 300,000-400,000 telecom SIMs used in fraudulent schemes, show government data. <\/p>\n<p>The Financial Risk Indicator (FRI), launched in May, is now daily flagging 2,000 high-risk phone numbers that may be involved in investment or job scams, and other fraudulent activities. More SIMs on the network are then identified using artificial intelligence-based pattern matching. This has helped UPI platforms like Paytm, GPay and PhonePe prevent suspicious transactions worth crores of rupees in the past month, a senior official at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The telecom department&#8217;s latest initiative to categorise high-risk fraud accounts has caught and blacklisted 300,000-400,000 telecom SIMs used in fraudulent schemes, show government data. The Financial Risk Indicator (FRI), launched in May, is now daily flagging 2,000 high-risk phone numbers that may be involved in investment or job scams, and other fraudulent activities. More SIMs on the network are then identified using artificial intelligence-based pattern matching. This has helped UPI platforms like Paytm, GPay and PhonePe prevent suspicious transactions worth crores of rupees in the past month, a senior official at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) told ET.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952595","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=952595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}