India, Oct. 17 -- Google Pay has integrated with the Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI), a tool that flags mobile numbers based on their likelihood of being linked to financial scams, communications minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia said on Friday.

Telecom Secretary Neeraj Mittal told HT that Google integrated its systems with the FRI on Thursday.

The integration comes less than a week after HT reported on October 11 that Google Pay (GPay), responsible for nearly 30-35% of India's UPI transactions, had not yet linked with the FRI, unlike its competitors PhonePe and Paytm.

Google at the time had said that it had integrated FRI into its systems, a claim that was contradicted by senior officials at DoT, incl...