{"id":1015386,"date":"2026-06-18T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015386"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:36:21","slug":"helpline-found-via-chatgpt-costs-hyderabad-teacher-rs-3-9-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/helpline-found-via-chatgpt-costs-hyderabad-teacher-rs-3-9-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpline found via ChatGPT costs Hyderabad teacher Rs 3.9 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 65-year-old private school teacher from Saidabad lost Rs 3.92 lakh after being tricked into installing a malicious APK file on his phone. <\/p>\n<p>The victim told the Hyderabad Cybercrime police that the trouble began on May 29, when he clicked a YouTube advertisement for white reading glasses. He placed an order via the advertised website, but was delivered black eyeglasses through Ekart courier service. <\/p>\n<p>To resolve the issue, he used ChatGPT to search for Ekart\u2019s customer care helpline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 65-year-old private school teacher from Saidabad lost Rs 3.92 lakh after being tricked into installing a malicious APK file on his phone. The victim told the Hyderabad Cybercrime police that the trouble began on May 29, when he clicked a YouTube advertisement for white reading glasses. He placed an order via the advertised website, but was delivered black eyeglasses through Ekart courier service. To resolve the issue, he used ChatGPT to search for Ekart\u2019s customer care helpline.<\/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-1015386","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\/1015386","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=1015386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015397,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015386\/revisions\/1015397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}