Central Suspect Registry : In News
Since the launch of the online ‘Central suspect registry’,the Centre has declined six lakh fraudulent transactions and saved Rs 1,800 crore.
- Central Suspect Registry is an initiative to strengthen cyberfraud risk management by creating a registry of identifiers.
- It was created based on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP).
- It contains data of 1.4 million cybercriminals linked to financial fraud and various cyber-crimes.
- It has been developed by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), and can be accessed by states and UTs as well as central investigation and intelligence agencies.
- The registry was developed with collaboration from the banks/financial institutions and using it as a central-level database with consolidated data on cybercrime suspects.
