Date: 2026-02-12Category: Press ReleaseState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Union Minister Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia highlights measures undertaken through Digital Intelligence Platform and major outcomes in reducing telecom frauds
**Executive Summary**
The Union Minister of Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia, addressed Parliament on the measures taken to reduce cyber/telecom frauds through the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP), developed by the DoT. The DIP facilitates information sharing among stakeholders and leverages tools like ASTR, CIOR, and FRI to identify and block suspicious mobile connections and prevent financial frauds. The CIOR system was commissioned on 17.10.2024.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP):**
* Developed by DoT as a secure online platform for bidirectional information sharing to prevent misuse of telecom resources.
* Over 1,200 organizations are onboarded, including central security agencies, police departments of 36 states/UTs, I4C, banks, UPI providers, payment system operators, and TSPs.
* Enables stakeholders to share mobile numbers suspected of misuse in cybercrime and financial fraud with DoT for analysis.
* **AI and Analytics Tools:**
* **ASTR:** An AI and big data analytics tool identifies suspicious mobile connections, shared with TSPs through DIP; over 88 lakh mobile connections disconnected after failing reverification.
* **International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System (CIOR):** Identifies and blocks international spoofed calls displaying Indian mobile numbers; commissioned on 17.10.2024.
* Has blocked 1.35 crore calls in 24 hours, resulting in a nearly 99% reduction in spoofed calls with Indian calling line identification.
* **Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI):** Risk-based metric categorizing suspicious mobile numbers based on their probability of association with financial fraud.
* Allows stakeholders like banks, NBFCs, and UPI providers to prioritize enforcement and enhance customer protection measures.
* Since its launch in May 2025, financial institutions reported the prevention of over ₹1,400 crore in potential frauds utilizing FRI.
* **Citizen Reporting and Disconnection:**
* Based on 7.93 lakh reports of suspected fraudulent communication shared by citizens on Sanchar Saathi, 39.53 lakh mobile connections have been disconnected.
* DoT shares mobile number revocation lists with stakeholders on DIP.
* Stakeholders share action taken reports and mobile numbers suspected to be misused in cybercrime and financial frauds.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholders: Department of Telecommunications (DoT)**
* **Impact:** Is responsible for developing and maintaining the DIP and associated tools.
* **Action Required:** Maintain and update the DIP platform and share data with stakeholders.
**Stakeholders: Central Security Agencies, Police Departments, I4C, Banks, UPI Service Providers, Payment System Operators, TSPs**
* **Impact:** Gain access to tools and data to combat cybercrime and financial fraud.
* **Action Required:** Share data on suspicious mobile numbers, implement risk mitigation measures based on FRI, and provide action taken reports.
**Stakeholders: Citizens**
* **Impact:** Benefit from reduced cybercrime and financial fraud due to improved detection and prevention.
* **Action Required:** Report suspected fraudulent communication through the Sanchar Saathi platform.
Key Entities Referenced
Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP): A secure online platform developed by DoT for bidirectional information sharing with stakeholders for prevention of misuse of telecom resources in cybercrimes and financial frauds.
Department of Telecommunications (DoT): The government department responsible for developing and managing the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) and analyzing data shared by stakeholders to combat cybercrime and financial fraud.
Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI): A risk-based metric that categorizes suspicious mobile numbers according to their probability of being associated with financial fraud, utilized by stakeholders to prioritize enforcement and customer protection measures.
International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System (CIOR): A system designed to identify and block incoming international spoofed calls displaying Indian mobile numbers that appear to be originating within India.
ASTR: An artificial intelligence and big data analytics tool that identifies suspicious mobile connections.
Ministry of Communications
Union Minister Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia
highlights measures undertaken through Digital
Intelligence Platform and major outcomes in
reducing telecom frauds
Digital Intelligence Platform Driving Decisive Action Against
Telecom Frauds: Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia
Over 88 Lakh Suspicious Connections Disconnected; ₹1,400
Crore in Potential Frauds Prevented Through Risk-Based
Interventions
Nearly 99% Reduction in Spoofed Calls Achieved Through
Advanced Monitoring Systems: Shri Scindia
AI-led Tools and Financial Fraud Risk Indicator Strengthen
Citizen Protection Framework
Posted On: 12 FEB 2026 4:42PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of Communications and Development of the Northeastern Region, Shri Jyotiraditya
Scindia, informed the Parliament regarding the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) and the reduction in
cyber/telecom frauds attributable to DIP in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today to a question on the
subject “Reduction in cyber/telecom frauds.” The details are mentioned as below.
DoT has developed DIP, a secure online platform, for bidirectional information sharing with stakeholders
for prevention of misuse of telecom resources in cybercrimes and financial frauds. More than 1,200
organizations have been onboarded on DIP, including central security agencies, police departments of 36
states and union territories, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), banks, Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) service providers, payment system operators, and Telecom Service Providers (TSPs).
DIP enables onboarded stakeholders to share mobile numbers suspected to be misused in cybercrime and
financial fraud with DoT. Data shared by stakeholders is analyzed by DoT. Major outcomes are as follows:
(i)ASTR: This is an artificial intelligence and big data analytics tool that identifies suspicious mobile
connections. Such numbers are shared with TSPs through DIP. More than 88 lakh such mobile
connections have been disconnected after failing reverification.(ii) International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System (CIOR): This is a system to identify and
block incoming international spoofed calls displaying Indian mobile numbers that appear to be originating
within India. Since its commissioning on 17.10.2024, CIOR has shown significant results, blocking 1.35
crore calls in 24 hours and resulting in a nearly 99% reduction in spoofed calls with Indian calling line
identification. Calls that still land on international gateways are blocked there.
(iii) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI): This is a risk-based metric that categorizes a suspicious mobile
number according to its probability of being associated with medium, high, or very high risk of financial
fraud. FRI empowers stakeholders—especially banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and
UPI service providers—to prioritize enforcement and take additional customer protection measures like
enhanced due diligence and adoption of necessary real-time response protocols (alerts, transaction delays,
warnings, transaction decline, etc.) for flagged mobile numbers. Since its launch in May 2025, financial
institutions have reported that based on transaction decline and alerts or notifications given to citizens,
potential frauds amounting to over ₹1,400 crore have been prevented utilizing FRI.
(iv)Based on 7.93 lakh reports of suspected fraudulent communication shared by citizens on Sanchar
Saathi, 39.53 lakh mobile connections have been disconnected.
The analysis based on the data is shared by DoT with stakeholders on DIP in the form of a mobile number
revocation list, which is a list of disconnected mobile numbers along with the reasons and date of
disconnection, and FRI. Stakeholders, in return, share action taken reports and mobile numbers suspected
to be misused in cybercrime and financial frauds.
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