{"id":927849,"date":"2025-05-05T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927849"},"modified":"2025-05-05T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:46:55","slug":"rent-a-bank-account-scam-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/05\/rent-a-bank-account-scam-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent-a-bank-account scam: How it works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial fraudsters\/cyber criminals are donning a new cap now, as regulators and law enforcers have been able to control most of their traditionally proven modes of frauds such as phishing and stealing pin numbers\/passwords, among other tricks. <\/p>\n<p>In what is called a rent-a-bank-account scam, the new kid in the fraudsters\u2019 playbook, which is to allow a third party to access and use your bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial fraudsters\/cyber criminals are donning a new cap now, as regulators and law enforcers have been able to control most of their traditionally proven modes of frauds such as phishing and stealing pin numbers\/passwords, among other tricks. In what is called a rent-a-bank-account scam, the new kid in the fraudsters\u2019 playbook, which is to allow a third party to access and use your bank account.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927849","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=927849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}