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Several complaints had been received through the 1930 helpline and NCRP...
The Centre has blocked 100 websites involved in organized investment or task-based economic frauds and laundering the proceeds of crime out of India, the Union home ministry said on Wednesday.
The websites have been blocked by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) on the recommendation of the National Cybercrime Threat Analysis Unit (NCTAU) under the ministry of home affairs (MHA).
“NCTAU had last week identified and recommended over 100 websites involved in organized investment/task based - part time job frauds. MeitY, invoking its powers under the information technology act, 2000, has blocked these websites,” MHA said in a statement.
These websites, the ministry said, facilitated task based/organised illegal investment-related economic crimes, which were learnt to being operated by overseas actors. The overseas actors were allegedly using digital advertisement, chat messengers and mule/rented accounts for the same.
Several complaints had been received through the 1930 helpline and NCRP (National Cybercrime Reporting Portal) regarding these frauds.
The ministry said that “these offences were posing significant threats to the citizens and also involved data security concerns.”
The frauds, typically, are initiated through targetted digital advertisements on platforms like Google and Meta using key words like “Ghar baithe job (Jobs while sitting at home)”, “Ghar baithe kamai kaise karen (how to earn money while sitting at home)” in multiple languages from overseas advertisers. Targets are mostly retired employees, women and unemployed youth looking for part time jobs.
A cyber safe India, according to the statement, is one of the top priorities of the MHA.
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