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The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday blocked more than 100 websites that were involved in organised illegal investments and part-time job frauds. According to an official statement, these websites were being operated by overseas actors by using digital advertisement.

The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Union Home Ministry, through its vertical National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (NCTAU) had last week identified and recommended over 100 websites involved in organised investment and task-based part-time job frauds be blocked.

Following this, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), invoking its power under the Information Technology Act, 2000, has blocked these websites, the statement said.

The statement further read, "These websites, which facilitated task-based organised illegal investment related to economic crimes, were learnt to be operated by overseas actors and were using digital advertisement, chat messengers and mule and rented accounts."

The proceeds from the large-scale economic frauds were seen to be laundered out of India using card networks, crypto currency, overseas ATM withdrawals and international Fintech companies, the statement said.

The ministry in its statement flagged some of the scams such as "Ghar baithe job", and "Ghar baidhe kamai kaise karen" and issued some precautionary measures to take.

Check Precautions Here:

-Exercise due diligence before investing in any such very high commission paying online schemes sponsored over the internet.

-If an unknown person contacts you over WhatsApp / Telegram, refrain from performing financial transactions without verification.

-Verify the name of the receiver mentioned in the UPI App. If the receiver is any random person, it may be a mule account and the scheme may be fraudulent. Similarly, check the source from where an initial commission is received.

-Citizens should refrain from doing transactions with unknown accounts, as these could be involved in money laundering and even terror financing and lead to the blocking of accounts by police and other legal action.