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DoT system to classify mobile numbers based on fraud risk
The New Indian Express Villupuram
|May 22, 2025
In a bid to curb cyber fraud and protect citizens from financial crimes, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)—a tool that helps banks, payment apps, and other financial services identify whether a mobile number has been used for fraudulent activities.
The tool checks if a phone number is linked to past fraud and then marks it as Medium, High, or Very High risk. It gathers this information from various sources, including the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal, DoT's Chakshu platform, and intelligence share
This story is from the May 22, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Villupuram.
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