{"id":1010463,"date":"2026-05-28T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010463"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:17:12","slug":"police-focus-on-hidden-investment-faces-linked-to-high-end-cyber-fraud-in-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/28\/police-focus-on-hidden-investment-faces-linked-to-high-end-cyber-fraud-in-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Police focus on hidden \u2018investment faces\u2019 linked to high-end cyber fraud in Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Cybercrime investigators are probing what officials describe as a hidden network of financially established \u201cinvestment faces\u201d allegedly used to absorb and circulate money generated through large-scale online fraud. <\/p>\n<p>The probe gained momentum following recent major cyber fraud cases reported in the district, including a Rs 25-crore online-trading fraud under investigation by Kochi City police and another case in which a 75-year-old citizen allegedly lost nearly Rs 11 crore through a fake online investment platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Cybercrime investigators are probing what officials describe as a hidden network of financially established \u201cinvestment faces\u201d allegedly used to absorb and circulate money generated through large-scale online fraud. The probe gained momentum following recent major cyber fraud cases reported in the district, including a Rs 25-crore online-trading fraud under investigation by Kochi City police and another case in which a 75-year-old citizen allegedly lost nearly Rs 11 crore through a fake online investment platform.<\/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-1010463","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\/1010463","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=1010463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}