{"id":371831,"date":"2026-09-15T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=371831"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:22:38","slug":"financial-fraud-risk-indicator-fri-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/financial-fraud-risk-indicator-fri-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Department of Telecommunications has helped prevent suspected cyber fraud losses of more than five thousand crore rupees through its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) within fifteen months of its launch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_337790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337790\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_337790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337790\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-337790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-NewsOnAir.jpg?resize=417%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-NewsOnAir.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-NewsOnAir.jpg?resize=768%2C622&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-NewsOnAir.jpg?w=936&amp;ssl=1 936w\" alt=\"Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)\" width=\"417\" height=\"338\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source \u2013 News On Air<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multi- dimensional analytical tool<\/strong> to empower financial institutions with advance actionable <strong>intelligence for cyber fraud prevention<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative <strong>aims<\/strong> to bolster <strong>cyber protection by identifying mobile numbers<\/strong> linked to potential financial fraud before a transaction takes place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by:<\/strong> Department of Telecommunications (DoT) under its <strong>Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Working:<\/strong> The FRI is a <strong>risk-based metric<\/strong> that classifies mobile numbers into <strong>three categories<\/strong> Medium, High, and Very High based on their likelihood of involvement in financial fraud.\n<ul>\n<li>The classification draws from a comprehensive analysis using inputs from various platforms, including the <strong>Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre\u2019s National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), DoT\u2019s Chakshu platform<\/strong>, and <strong>intelligence<\/strong> shared by banks and financial institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It empowers <strong>stakeholders<\/strong>-especially <strong>banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies, and UPI service providers <\/strong>to prioritize enforcement and take <strong>additional customer protection<\/strong> measures in case a mobile number with high risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Department of Telecommunications has helped prevent suspected cyber fraud losses of more than five thousand crore rupees through its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) within fifteen months of its launch. About Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) It is a multi- dimensional analytical tool to empower financial institutions with advance actionable intelligence for cyber&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/financial-fraud-risk-indicator-fri-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,956,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-371831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-schemes-and-programs","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}