{"id":876128,"date":"2024-11-13T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=876128"},"modified":"2024-11-13T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T02:54:57","slug":"centre-freezes-450000-mule-bank-accounts-used-in-cyber-fraud-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/13\/centre-freezes-450000-mule-bank-accounts-used-in-cyber-fraud-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre freezes 450,000 &#8216;mule&#8217; bank accounts used in cyber fraud schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant crackdown on cybercrime, the Centre has frozen around 450,000 \u201cmule\u201d bank accounts in the past year, according to a report by The Indian Express. These accounts are typically used to launder money obtained from cyber fraud. While such accounts are spread across various banks, a high concentration has been identified in State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Canara Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Airtel Payments Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant crackdown on cybercrime, the Centre has frozen around 450,000 \u201cmule\u201d bank accounts in the past year, according to a report by The Indian Express. These accounts are typically used to launder money obtained from cyber fraud. While such accounts are spread across various banks, a high concentration has been identified in State Bank of India (SBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Canara Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Airtel Payments Bank.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876128","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=876128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}