{"id":1009974,"date":"2026-05-26T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009974"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:24:02","slug":"government-warns-users-about-fake-international-scam-calls-using-91-numbers-amid-rising-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/government-warns-users-about-fake-international-scam-calls-using-91-numbers-amid-rising-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Government warns users about fake international scam calls using +91 numbers amid rising frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued a fresh advisory warning mobile users about a new wave of scam calls. Under this scam, calls falsely appear as \u201cinternational\u201d calls while displaying India\u2019s +91 country code. The government has asked users to remain alert and avoid sharing personal or financial information over such calls. <\/p>\n<p>According to the advisory posted by the Department of Telecommunications on \u2018X\u2019, genuine international calls always display the country code of the nation from where the call originates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued a fresh advisory warning mobile users about a new wave of scam calls. Under this scam, calls falsely appear as \u201cinternational\u201d calls while displaying India\u2019s +91 country code. The government has asked users to remain alert and avoid sharing personal or financial information over such calls. According to the advisory posted by the Department of Telecommunications on \u2018X\u2019, genuine international calls always display the country code of the nation from where the call originates.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009974","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=1009974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009979,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009974\/revisions\/1009979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}