{"id":1026682,"date":"2026-08-06T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026682"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:19:11","slug":"woman-makes-rs-5-token-payment-on-upi-to-book-doctors-appointment-loses-rs-8-18-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/woman-makes-rs-5-token-payment-on-upi-to-book-doctors-appointment-loses-rs-8-18-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman makes Rs 5 token payment on UPI to book \u2018doctor\u2019s appointment\u2019, loses Rs 8.18 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old woman from Kalyan in Thane district allegedly lost Rs 8.18 lakh in a cyber fraud after attempting to book a medical appointment online, prompting police to register a case against unidentified fraudsters and launch an investigation, an official said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The victim googled a doctor\u2019s name to locate the hospital and find out contact details. She dialled a mobile number listed online to book an appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 51-year-old woman from Kalyan in Thane district allegedly lost Rs 8.18 lakh in a cyber fraud after attempting to book a medical appointment online, prompting police to register a case against unidentified fraudsters and launch an investigation, an official said on Wednesday. The victim googled a doctor\u2019s name to locate the hospital and find out contact details. She dialled a mobile number listed online to book an appointment.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026682","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=1026682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026752,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026682\/revisions\/1026752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}