{"id":1003906,"date":"2026-04-20T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003906"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:43:18","slug":"loan-apps-linked-to-15000-complaints-7-suicides-in-three-years-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/loan-apps-linked-to-15000-complaints-7-suicides-in-three-years-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Loan apps linked to 15,000 complaints, 7 suicides in three years in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The death of BDS student Nithin Raj has shone the spotlight back on illegal loan apps, specifically how they extort victims using personal data accessed from their own devices. <\/p>\n<p>Nithin, a first-year student of Kannur Dental College, Anjarakandy, ended his life on April 10. A probe revealed he had borrowed money from a predatory loan app and, a day before his death, received threat calls from the app\u2019s operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The death of BDS student Nithin Raj has shone the spotlight back on illegal loan apps, specifically how they extort victims using personal data accessed from their own devices. Nithin, a first-year student of Kannur Dental College, Anjarakandy, ended his life on April 10. A probe revealed he had borrowed money from a predatory loan app and, a day before his death, received threat calls from the app\u2019s operators.<\/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-1003906","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\/1003906","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=1003906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}