India’s Department of Telecommunications reported that its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator has averted over ₹1,400 crore in potential losses since launching in May 2025 by enabling banks, NBFCs and UPI providers to apply real-time transaction safeguards based on fraud-risk scores.

Banks, NBFCs and UPI providers can treat DoT’s risk scores as an operational control to delay, warn on, or decline higher-risk transactions, tightening fraud-loss assumptions for India-facing payment flows. Telecom operators have already been pushed into large-scale enforcement actions via related tooling, with over 8.8 million numbers disconnected after reverification, which can disrupt customer onboarding and transaction continuity for users tied to those numbers. The quantified loss-prevention figure strengthens the case for wider adoption and deeper integration of telecom-sourced fraud signals into financial risk engines in India.