{"id":952849,"date":"2025-08-06T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952849"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T02:32:55","slug":"dots-financial-risk-indicator-blacklists-300-400k-sims-since-may-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/06\/dots-financial-risk-indicator-blacklists-300-400k-sims-since-may-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT\u2019s financial risk indicator blacklists 300-400k SIMs since May launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The telecom department\u2019s 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\u2019s 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-952849","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\/952849","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=952849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}