{"id":1018015,"date":"2026-07-01T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018015"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:36:55","slug":"surat-police-bust-fake-weight-loss-scam-rs-75-80-crore-fraud-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/surat-police-bust-fake-weight-loss-scam-rs-75-80-crore-fraud-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"Surat police bust fake weight-loss scam, Rs 75\u201380 crore fraud suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: The Surat Cyber Crime Police have uncovered an alleged nationwide cyber fraud in which women were cheated in the name of weight-loss treatment. The racket, allegedly operated under the banner of Curest Science &amp; Wellness Pvt. Ltd, used fake websites, misleading advertisements and telemarketing calls to lure victims into buying costly medicines. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation began after a complaint was registered with the Surat Cyber Crime Police. During a raid at a call centre in Gurugram, police found a large operation involving around 100 to 150 telecallers allegedly contacting potential victims across the country using scripted sales pitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: The Surat Cyber Crime Police have uncovered an alleged nationwide cyber fraud in which women were cheated in the name of weight-loss treatment. The racket, allegedly operated under the banner of Curest Science &amp; Wellness Pvt. Ltd, used fake websites, misleading advertisements and telemarketing calls to lure victims into buying costly medicines. The investigation began after a complaint was registered with the Surat Cyber Crime Police. During a raid at a call centre in Gurugram, police found a large operation involving around 100 to 150 telecallers allegedly contacting potential victims across the country using scripted sales pitches.<\/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-1018015","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\/1018015","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=1018015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018037,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018015\/revisions\/1018037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}