{"id":881308,"date":"2024-11-27T09:14:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=881308"},"modified":"2024-11-27T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T03:49:16","slug":"banks-no-funds-pleas-about-mule-accounts-dash-hopes-of-cyber-fraud-victims-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/27\/banks-no-funds-pleas-about-mule-accounts-dash-hopes-of-cyber-fraud-victims-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks\u2019 \u2018no-funds\u2019 pleas about mule accounts dash hopes of cyber fraud victims in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first week of February, Shakeela Begum, 40, a housewife and resident of east Bengaluru, received phone calls about a scheme where poor families would receive Rs 2 lakh if they paid Rs 20,000 to obtain a GST number. <\/p>\n<p>The unsuspecting woman transferred Rs 20,000 through a digital payments system to a number she had been provided. She soon received another call stating that she could get Rs 4 lakh if she paid an additional Rs 18,000 for a second GST number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first week of February, Shakeela Begum, 40, a housewife and resident of east Bengaluru, received phone calls about a scheme where poor families would receive Rs 2 lakh if they paid Rs 20,000 to obtain a GST number. The unsuspecting woman transferred Rs 20,000 through a digital payments system to a number she had been provided. She soon received another call stating that she could get Rs 4 lakh if she paid an additional Rs 18,000 for a second GST number.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881308","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=881308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}