Banks (Finance)
Digital Scam Trail: Banks, Officials Watch as Ghost Accounts Used and Reused
As investigations by The Indian Express reveal, leading banks and their officials have dropped the ball, allowing cyber scamsters to pass crores of stolen money through ghost accounts opened by fictitious outfits. One such scam involved a 78-year-old retired IAF officer, Biren Yadav, who was coerced into transferring Rs 1.