{"id":1017417,"date":"2026-06-29T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017417"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:30:08","slug":"hyderabad-man-googles-birla-cement-call-centre-loses-rs-19-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/hyderabad-man-googles-birla-cement-call-centre-loses-rs-19-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad man Googles Birla Cement call centre, loses Rs 19 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Intending to purchase 450 bags of Birla Cement for a construction project, a 60-year-old businessman from Shamirpet lost Rs 19.65 lakh after allegedly contacting cybercriminals posing as sales representatives. <\/p>\n<p>On April 13, the victim contacted a number he found on Google while searching for the Birla Cement call centre. The person who responded identified himself as Akash, claiming to be a sales representative of Birla Group. He quoted a price of Rs 280 per cement bag, amounting to Rs 1,26,000 for 450 bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Intending to purchase 450 bags of Birla Cement for a construction project, a 60-year-old businessman from Shamirpet lost Rs 19.65 lakh after allegedly contacting cybercriminals posing as sales representatives. On April 13, the victim contacted a number he found on Google while searching for the Birla Cement call centre. The person who responded identified himself as Akash, claiming to be a sales representative of Birla Group. He quoted a price of Rs 280 per cement bag, amounting to Rs 1,26,000 for 450 bags.<\/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-1017417","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\/1017417","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=1017417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017422,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017417\/revisions\/1017422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}