{"id":1014759,"date":"2026-06-16T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014759"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:51:56","slug":"digital-arrest-scam-67-year-old-woman-defrauded-of-rs-16-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/digital-arrest-scam-67-year-old-woman-defrauded-of-rs-16-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest scam: 67-year-old woman defrauded of Rs 16 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as police continue to warn the public against digital arrest scams, a 67-year-old woman from Sreekaryam has been defrauded of over Rs 16 lakh by cyber criminals who posed as CBI officials and falsely linked her to a money-laundering investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Police have registered a case and launched an investigation with the assistance of cyber police. The woman lost an amount of `16,36,999 to the fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as police continue to warn the public against digital arrest scams, a 67-year-old woman from Sreekaryam has been defrauded of over Rs 16 lakh by cyber criminals who posed as CBI officials and falsely linked her to a money-laundering investigation. Police have registered a case and launched an investigation with the assistance of cyber police. The woman lost an amount of `16,36,999 to the fraud.<\/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-1014759","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\/1014759","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=1014759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014787,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014759\/revisions\/1014787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}