{"id":1024814,"date":"2026-07-30T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024814"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:26:04","slug":"andhra-govts-thalliki-vandanam-aid-of-28-beneficiaries-swindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/andhra-govts-thalliki-vandanam-aid-of-28-beneficiaries-swindled\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra govt&#8217;s Thalliki Vandanam aid of 28 beneficiaries swindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KURNOOL: A major cyber fraud linked to the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s Thalliki Vandanam welfare scheme has come to light in Kurnool district, where fraudsters allegedly siphoned welfare benefits from the bank accounts of 28 beneficiaries by misusing their personal and biometric information. <\/p>\n<p>Kurnool One Town Circle Inspector Maruthi Shankar said the accused, Upendra and Veera Reddy, allegedly worked as Airtel SIM salespersons and collected Aadhaar details, fingerprints and bank account information from customers while issuing SIM cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KURNOOL: A major cyber fraud linked to the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s Thalliki Vandanam welfare scheme has come to light in Kurnool district, where fraudsters allegedly siphoned welfare benefits from the bank accounts of 28 beneficiaries by misusing their personal and biometric information. Kurnool One Town Circle Inspector Maruthi Shankar said the accused, Upendra and Veera Reddy, allegedly worked as Airtel SIM salespersons and collected Aadhaar details, fingerprints and bank account information from customers while issuing SIM cards.<\/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-1024814","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\/1024814","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=1024814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024845,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024814\/revisions\/1024845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}