{"id":1010731,"date":"2026-05-29T09:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010731"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:19:35","slug":"bengaluru-call-centre-employee-dupes-chennai-techie-of-rs-14-5-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/bengaluru-call-centre-employee-dupes-chennai-techie-of-rs-14-5-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru call centre employee dupes Chennai techie of Rs 14.5 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: A call centre employee from Bengaluru was arrested for allegedly posing as a middleman on OLX to dupe an IT professional, planning to buy a used car in Chennai, of Rs 14.5 lakh. Investigators are now suspecting a network behind the fraud as they found the phone and SIM card used in the crime were procured from multiple sources. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Rajesh, contacted both the prospective buyer &#8211; Sathish (32) of Kilpauk &#8212; and seller &#8212; Bharath (32) of Medavakkam &#8212; separately, identifying himself as a relative of the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: A call centre employee from Bengaluru was arrested for allegedly posing as a middleman on OLX to dupe an IT professional, planning to buy a used car in Chennai, of Rs 14.5 lakh. Investigators are now suspecting a network behind the fraud as they found the phone and SIM card used in the crime were procured from multiple sources. The suspect, Rajesh, contacted both the prospective buyer &#8211; Sathish (32) of Kilpauk &#8212; and seller &#8212; Bharath (32) of Medavakkam &#8212; separately, identifying himself as a relative of the other.<\/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-1010731","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\/1010731","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=1010731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010755,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010731\/revisions\/1010755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}