{"id":1017266,"date":"2026-06-27T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017266"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:40:50","slug":"digital-minefield-how-your-bank-account-can-be-frozen-thanks-to-cyber-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/27\/digital-minefield-how-your-bank-account-can-be-frozen-thanks-to-cyber-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital minefield: How your bank account can be frozen, thanks to cyber criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer from Telangana, a central government employee posted in Calcutta and a woman rider for a ride-sharing app in Calcutta have nothing in common, except that they have all been victims of cyber fraud \u2013 not because money has been defrauded from them, but because money defrauded from others has landed in their accounts. <\/p>\n<p>In the 50-plus months between April 2021 and November 2025, cyber criminals emptied Rs 52,969 crore from bank accounts across India. On average 7,000 to 7,700 complaints of cyber-enabled financial crimes are reported daily with the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer from Telangana, a central government employee posted in Calcutta and a woman rider for a ride-sharing app in Calcutta have nothing in common, except that they have all been victims of cyber fraud \u2013 not because money has been defrauded from them, but because money defrauded from others has landed in their accounts. In the 50-plus months between April 2021 and November 2025, cyber criminals emptied Rs 52,969 crore from bank accounts across India. On average 7,000 to 7,700 complaints of cyber-enabled financial crimes are reported daily with the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017277,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017266\/revisions\/1017277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}