{"id":1027031,"date":"2026-08-07T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027031"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:28:43","slug":"cbi-busts-international-tech-support-fraud-racket-targeting-us-nationals-four-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/cbi-busts-international-tech-support-fraud-racket-targeting-us-nationals-four-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI busts international tech-support fraud racket targeting US nationals; four arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has unearthed a sophisticated international tech-support fraud and extortion racket operating through fake call centres and offices across Punjab and Delhi. The syndicate allegedly targeted US nationals, coercing them into making ransom payments in cryptocurrency. Four accused have been arrested in connection with the case. <\/p>\n<p>The agency said the syndicate, headed by the alleged kingpin, primarily targeted US citizens by posing as representatives of Microsoft, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has unearthed a sophisticated international tech-support fraud and extortion racket operating through fake call centres and offices across Punjab and Delhi. The syndicate allegedly targeted US nationals, coercing them into making ransom payments in cryptocurrency. Four accused have been arrested in connection with the case. The agency said the syndicate, headed by the alleged kingpin, primarily targeted US citizens by posing as representatives of Microsoft, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies.<\/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-1027031","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\/1027031","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=1027031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027033,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027031\/revisions\/1027033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}