{"id":1013136,"date":"2026-06-09T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013136"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:16:16","slug":"cyber-gangs-and-the-trick-knots-tied-to-matrimonial-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/cyber-gangs-and-the-trick-knots-tied-to-matrimonial-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber gangs and the trick knots tied to matrimonial platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Cambodian cyber fraud gangs are now increasingly using matrimonial websites to lure victims in India into fake investment schemes. <\/p>\n<p>In the last six months alone, the Kochi City police cyber wing identified and removed more than 1,000 fake profiles created across matrimonial platforms allegedly to target people in Kerala and other states. <\/p>\n<p>The probe gained momentum after a city-based doctor lost around Rs 37 lakh last year to swindlers who handled the account of a fictional NRI woman on a matrimonial platform. Officers said the scale of the fake-profile network indicates several people could have fallen victim to similar scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Cambodian cyber fraud gangs are now increasingly using matrimonial websites to lure victims in India into fake investment schemes. In the last six months alone, the Kochi City police cyber wing identified and removed more than 1,000 fake profiles created across matrimonial platforms allegedly to target people in Kerala and other states. The probe gained momentum after a city-based doctor lost around Rs 37 lakh last year to swindlers who handled the account of a fictional NRI woman on a matrimonial platform. Officers said the scale of the fake-profile network indicates several people could have fallen victim to similar [&hellip;]<\/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-1013136","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\/1013136","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=1013136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013157,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013136\/revisions\/1013157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}