{"id":1009826,"date":"2026-05-25T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009826"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:39:22","slug":"bengaluru-woman-loses-%e2%82%b924-crore-to-scammers-during-5-month-long-digital-arrest-heres-how-it-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/bengaluru-woman-loses-%e2%82%b924-crore-to-scammers-during-5-month-long-digital-arrest-heres-how-it-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru woman loses \u20b924 crore to scammers during 5-month-long digital arrest: Here&#8217;s how it unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Crime Branch (CCB) busted what is being dubbed as Karnataka\u2019s biggest \u201cdigital arrest\u201d cyber fraud case. The cybercrime sleuths of the CCB reportedly arrested five accused in a massive online scam.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Hindu, they were accused of cheating an elderly Bengaluru woman of nearly \u20b924 crore by posing as officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Crime Branch (CCB) busted what is being dubbed as Karnataka\u2019s biggest \u201cdigital arrest\u201d cyber fraud case. The cybercrime sleuths of the CCB reportedly arrested five accused in a massive online scam. According to The Hindu, they were accused of cheating an elderly Bengaluru woman of nearly \u20b924 crore by posing as officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009826","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009829,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009826\/revisions\/1009829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}