{"id":1024455,"date":"2026-07-29T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024455"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:26:54","slug":"hyderabad-ed-arrests-key-accused-in-us-call-centre-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/hyderabad-ed-arrests-key-accused-in-us-call-centre-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad: ED arrests key accused in US call centre scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Intensifying its investigation into a fake call centre scam perpetrated from Hyderabad targeting foreign nationals, including US citizens, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted fresh raids and took key accused Vikas K Nimar into custody. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the investigation revealed that the accused allegedly impersonated officials of US government agencies and intimidated victims by claiming they were involved in tax defaults, loan dues or illegal activities. The accused also allegedly threatened legal action and coerced victims into purchasing Amazon gift cards and making digital payments, fraudulently collecting crores of rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Intensifying its investigation into a fake call centre scam perpetrated from Hyderabad targeting foreign nationals, including US citizens, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted fresh raids and took key accused Vikas K Nimar into custody. According to sources, the investigation revealed that the accused allegedly impersonated officials of US government agencies and intimidated victims by claiming they were involved in tax defaults, loan dues or illegal activities. The accused also allegedly threatened legal action and coerced victims into purchasing Amazon gift cards and making digital payments, fraudulently collecting crores of rupees.<\/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-1024455","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\/1024455","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=1024455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024526,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024455\/revisions\/1024526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}