{"id":954086,"date":"2025-08-11T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954086"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:17:29","slug":"lucknows-mule-account-menace-how-local-youths-are-fuelling-global-cyber-fraud-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/lucknows-mule-account-menace-how-local-youths-are-fuelling-global-cyber-fraud-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucknow&#8217;s &#8216;mule account&#8217; menace: How local youths are fuelling global cyber fraud network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: Ajay, a 24-year-old restaurant waiter from the winding lanes of Old Lucknow, thought he had stumbled upon an easy way to make money. <\/p>\n<p>A friend introduced him to a crypto trader who offered Rs 20,000 if Ajay allowed the use of his bank account for a day&#8217;s transaction. Tempted, he agreed. <\/p>\n<p>The next morning, lakhs of rupees flowed into his account before these were withdrawn under someone else&#8217;s instructions, and handed over to strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow: Ajay, a 24-year-old restaurant waiter from the winding lanes of Old Lucknow, thought he had stumbled upon an easy way to make money. A friend introduced him to a crypto trader who offered Rs 20,000 if Ajay allowed the use of his bank account for a day&#8217;s transaction. Tempted, he agreed. The next morning, lakhs of rupees flowed into his account before these were withdrawn under someone else&#8217;s instructions, and handed over to strangers.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954086","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=954086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}