{"id":1022333,"date":"2026-07-20T09:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022333"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:20:38","slug":"national-student-laptop-scheme-2026-is-fake-pib-fact-check-reiterates-warning-against-viral-whatsapp-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/national-student-laptop-scheme-2026-is-fake-pib-fact-check-reiterates-warning-against-viral-whatsapp-message\/","title":{"rendered":"National Student Laptop Scheme 2026 is fake: PIB Fact Check reiterates warning against viral WhatsApp message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Press Information Bureau&#8217;s (PIB) Fact Check unit on Sunday reiterated that a viral WhatsApp message claiming the Government of India is accepting applications for free laptops under the so-called \u2018National Student Laptop Scheme 2026\u2019 is completely false.<\/p>\n<p>The agency cautioned that fraudsters commonly use such messages to collect sensitive information, including personal and financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Press Information Bureau&#8217;s (PIB) Fact Check unit on Sunday reiterated that a viral WhatsApp message claiming the Government of India is accepting applications for free laptops under the so-called \u2018National Student Laptop Scheme 2026\u2019 is completely false. The agency cautioned that fraudsters commonly use such messages to collect sensitive information, including personal and financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022333","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022334,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022333\/revisions\/1022334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}