FRI Blocks Cyber Fraud Worth Over Rs 5,000 Crore

The correct answer is the Department of Telecommunications. The FRI is a telecom intelligence framework built by that department and offered to financial institutions through its Digital Intelligence Platform, and on 8 September 2026 it was reported to have prevented suspected cyber fraud of more than five thousand crore rupees since its launch on 22 May 2025. Option A is a tempting distractor because banks are the users of the signal and the Department of Financial Services handles banking policy, but the indicator is built on telecom data such as the behaviour of mobile numbers. Option C is wrong because the Department of Revenue deals with taxation and not with cyber fraud prevention of this kind. Option D is wrong because consumer affairs work on grievance redress is a different track altogether. The logic to remember is that a fraud usually begins with the misuse of a mobile connection, which is why the telecom department owns the tool.

The correct answer is the Digital Intelligence Platform. The FRI is developed under this platform, which classifies mobile numbers as medium, high or very high risk and securely shares the result with banks, payment service providers, insurers, securities intermediaries and pension entities. Option A, Sanchar Saathi, is a genuine part of the story but plays a different role: citizens report suspicious numbers there, and those reports become one of the inputs for the classification. Option C, the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal, belongs to the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre and is likewise an input source rather than the platform that carries the indicator. Option D, the Unified Payments Interface, is the payment system whose service providers use the signal to stop or flag transactions in real time. Keep the roles separate: inputs, platform and users are three different layers of this story.

The correct answer is Rs 5,043.73 crore. That is the cumulative amount of suspected fraud stopped through the indicator up to August 2026, which is why the announcement speaks of more than five thousand crore rupees saved in fifteen months. Option A is the figure for the first six months of working, and the growth from that level to the present one is described as a nearly eight-fold rise, so it is a real number in the story but answers a different question. Option B and option D are built by changing the leading digit of the correct figure and do not appear in the announcement at all. A related figure worth holding is the starting point of the climb: the cumulative saving stood at a little over one hundred and thirty nine crore rupees in August 2025, so the whole scale-up happened within a single year as banks and payment platforms adopted the tool.