{"id":1018462,"date":"2026-07-02T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018462"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:44:25","slug":"username-feature-on-whatsapp-may-increase-online-fraud-phishing-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/username-feature-on-whatsapp-may-increase-online-fraud-phishing-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Username feature on WhatsApp may increase online fraud, phishing&#8221;: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Centre has issued a notice to Meta regarding the roll-out of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, stating that it may increase the incidence of online fraud, phishing, and digital arrest scams. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre expressed concern, saying that the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature may enable &#8220;impersonation and identity spoofing,&#8221; and asked Meta to furnish a detailed explanation within three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Centre has issued a notice to Meta regarding the roll-out of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, stating that it may increase the incidence of online fraud, phishing, and digital arrest scams. The Centre expressed concern, saying that the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature may enable &#8220;impersonation and identity spoofing,&#8221; and asked Meta to furnish a detailed explanation within three days.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018462","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=1018462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018479,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018462\/revisions\/1018479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}