New Delhi, March 23 -- The NPCI has decided to deactivate UPI IDs associated with inactive mobile numbers from April 1, 2025, to strengthen security and mitigate potential fraud risks. Users of digital payment platforms such as Google Pay, Paytm, and PhonePe with inactive mobile numbers or mobile numbers reassigned by the operators will lose such UPI services.

NPCI states that inactive mobile numbers associated with UPI IDs pose a security threat. Majorly, users change or deactivate a mobile number without updating their bank details, making such numbers easy targets for misuse. In case reallocation happens for such a number, fraudsters can gain unauthorized access to the respective UPI accounts. Therefore, to mitigate this risk, NPCI ha...