{"id":961412,"date":"2025-09-13T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961412"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:25:43","slug":"madhya-pradesh-villagers-biometric-data-misused-to-issue-fake-sims-for-national-international-cyber-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/madhya-pradesh-villagers-biometric-data-misused-to-issue-fake-sims-for-national-international-cyber-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh villagers\u2019 biometric data misused to issue fake SIMs for national, international cyber frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: Villagers in Madhya Pradesh are increasingly falling prey to multi-layered rackets that misuse their identification details to source fake SIM cards, fueling inter-state and international cyber frauds run from countries like Cambodia and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing crackdown by the MP Police against rackets sourcing fake SIM cards to be used for cyber crimes across the country and abroad \u2013 have stumbled upon an increasingly prevalent modus operandi of some SIM card point-of-sale (PoS) \u2013 who are using identification details, particularly biometric data (especially thumb impression\/fingerprint details) to issue SIM cards in bulk for use by the cyber fraud rackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: Villagers in Madhya Pradesh are increasingly falling prey to multi-layered rackets that misuse their identification details to source fake SIM cards, fueling inter-state and international cyber frauds run from countries like Cambodia and Thailand. Ongoing crackdown by the MP Police against rackets sourcing fake SIM cards to be used for cyber crimes across the country and abroad \u2013 have stumbled upon an increasingly prevalent modus operandi of some SIM card point-of-sale (PoS) \u2013 who are using identification details, particularly biometric data (especially thumb impression\/fingerprint details) to issue SIM cards in bulk for use by the cyber fraud rackets.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961412","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=961412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}