{"id":83813,"date":"2017-01-04T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs_admin.quickheal.com\/?p=83813"},"modified":"2017-01-06T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:00:49","slug":"install-the-bhim-app-only-from-official-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/install-the-bhim-app-only-from-official-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert! Install the BHIM app only from official app stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 BHIM is a digital payment app recently launched by the Government of India.<br \/>\n\u2022 BHIM app is currently available only in Google Play Store.<br \/>\n\u2022 Several other apps having the name &#8216;BHIM&#8217; are present in Google Play.<br \/>\n\u2022 Install only the official BHIM app developed by &#8216;National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is BHIM?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Short for Bharat Interface for Money, BHIM is a newly launched app designed for instant <span class=\"_Tgc\">cashless payments through your mobile phone. <\/span>To know how to use the app and what all features it offers, <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/bhim-app-payments-cashless-online-transaction-narendra-modi-how-it-works-shortcomings-4456264\/\" target=\"_blank\">read this article by indianexpress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important points to remember<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u2022 Several apps having the name &#8216;BHIM&#8217; have already flooded the Google Play Store confusing a lot of users. While some of these apps act as a guidebook on how to use the BHIM app, most of them display the list of supported banks. However, there are apps that ask for permission to access the user&#8217;s data and pictures &#8211; this can be dangerous!<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As of now, BHIM is only available on Google Play. It hasn&#8217;t been launched for iOS and Windows phone users.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Before installing BHIM, ensure you verify these points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The developer name is &#8216;National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>The developer&#8217;s website is https:\/\/www.npci.org.in\/UPI_Product.aspx<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2022 Here&#8217;s the link to download the official BHIM app from Google Play &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=in.org.npci.upiapp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=in.org.npci.upiapp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Avoid downloading this app or any digital payment app from third-party app stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 If you should require a guide to using BHIM, visit the link mentioned earlier in this post.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Install a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickheal.co.in\/home-users\/quick-heal-total-security-for-android\" target=\"_blank\">mobile antivirus app<\/a> that can block installation of fake and infected apps on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>If you think this post is helpful, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?app_id=188707654478&amp;sdk=joey&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.quickheal.com%2F%3Fp%3D83813&amp;display=popup&amp;ref=plugin&amp;src=share_button\" target=\"_blank\">share<\/a> it with your friends. Stay safe!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/business\/in-other-news\/040117\/fake-bhim-apps-confuse-people.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 BHIM is a digital payment app recently launched by the Government of India. \u2022 BHIM app is currently available only in Google Play Store. \u2022 Several other apps having the name &#8216;BHIM&#8217; are present in Google Play. \u2022 Install only the official BHIM app developed by &#8216;National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)&#8217; What is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":83818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,285,24,354,773,788,5],"tags":[1391,1392,1390],"class_list":["post-83813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adware","category-applications","category-malware","category-mobile-security-2","category-online-privacy-2","category-safe-banking","category-security","tag-bhim-app","tag-digital-payment-app","tag-fake-bhim-apps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83813"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83828,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83813\/revisions\/83828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}