{"id":1001275,"date":"2026-04-04T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001275"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:15:40","slug":"elderly-man-in-gujarat-loses-rs-57-lakh-to-cyber-fraud-investigation-exposes-chinese-linked-syndicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/elderly-man-in-gujarat-loses-rs-57-lakh-to-cyber-fraud-investigation-exposes-chinese-linked-syndicate\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man in Gujarat loses Rs 57 lakh to cyber fraud, investigation exposes Chinese-linked syndicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: A chilling cyber fraud racket involving a marriage trap and crypto lure to dupe an elderly lawyer of Rs 57 lakh was busted in Gujarat, exposing a wider Chinese-linked syndicate operating through rented bank accounts. <\/p>\n<p>The fraud racket spanned across Ahmedabad, Dubai and Cambodia. <\/p>\n<p>What began as a promise of love quickly spiralled into a calculated financial ambush, and as the illusion deepened, the money trail led investigators into the corridors of an international cyber fraud network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: A chilling cyber fraud racket involving a marriage trap and crypto lure to dupe an elderly lawyer of Rs 57 lakh was busted in Gujarat, exposing a wider Chinese-linked syndicate operating through rented bank accounts. The fraud racket spanned across Ahmedabad, Dubai and Cambodia. What began as a promise of love quickly spiralled into a calculated financial ambush, and as the illusion deepened, the money trail led investigators into the corridors of an international cyber fraud network.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001275","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=1001275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}