{"id":991970,"date":"2026-02-14T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991970"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:34:12","slug":"dots-fraud-indicator-prevents-%e2%82%b91400-crore-in-potential-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/dots-fraud-indicator-prevents-%e2%82%b91400-crore-in-potential-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;DoT&#8217;s fraud indicator prevents \u20b91,400 crore in potential losses&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) has prevented potential financial losses of more than \u20b91,400 crore since its launch in May 2025, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The risk-scoring system flags mobile phone numbers as medium, high or very high fraud probability, enabling banks, non-banking financial companies and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) providers to deploy real-time safeguards including alerts, transaction delays, warnings and declined transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications&#8217; (DoT) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) has prevented potential financial losses of more than \u20b91,400 crore since its launch in May 2025, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The risk-scoring system flags mobile phone numbers as medium, high or very high fraud probability, enabling banks, non-banking financial companies and Unified Payments Interface (UPI) providers to deploy real-time safeguards including alerts, transaction delays, warnings and declined transactions.<\/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-991970","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\/991970","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=991970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}