{"id":1014110,"date":"2026-06-12T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014110"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:59:16","slug":"bengaluru-woman-loses-%e2%82%b998-4-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam-5-ways-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/bengaluru-woman-loses-%e2%82%b998-4-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam-5-ways-to-protect-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru woman loses \u20b998.4 lakh in digital arrest scam: 5 ways to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A random phone call turned into a difficult-to-handle two-month nightmairish ordeal for a 60-year-old senior citizen, a homemaker, who suffered a financial loss of \u20b998.4 lakh to cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials, as recently reported by The Hindu.<\/p>\n<p>The case throws light on the way \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scams are evolving throughout the country into highly convincing ways to cheat innocent victims of their hard-earned money. Fraudsters now extensively use psychological traps that exploit urgency, fear, trust and authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A random phone call turned into a difficult-to-handle two-month nightmairish ordeal for a 60-year-old senior citizen, a homemaker, who suffered a financial loss of \u20b998.4 lakh to cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcement officials, as recently reported by The Hindu. The case throws light on the way \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scams are evolving throughout the country into highly convincing ways to cheat innocent victims of their hard-earned money. Fraudsters now extensively use psychological traps that exploit urgency, fear, trust and authority.<\/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-1014110","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\/1014110","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=1014110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014111,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014110\/revisions\/1014111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}