{"id":1027367,"date":"2026-08-08T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027367"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:20:22","slug":"boss-scam-on-the-rise-mha-warns-finance-professionals-of-whatsapp-hijack-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/boss-scam-on-the-rise-mha-warns-finance-professionals-of-whatsapp-hijack-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boss Scam&#8217; on the rise: MHA warns finance professionals of WhatsApp hijack fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a nationwide advisory warning corporate entities, Chartered Accountants, company directors, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and other finance professionals about a rapidly spreading cyber fraud known as the &#8220;Boss Scam&#8221;, in which attackers compromise WhatsApp accounts to orchestrate high-value financial fraud. <\/p>\n<p>The alert follows a sharp rise in complaints received through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP), with incidents reported from several states, including Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a nationwide advisory warning corporate entities, Chartered Accountants, company directors, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and other finance professionals about a rapidly spreading cyber fraud known as the &#8220;Boss Scam&#8221;, in which attackers compromise WhatsApp accounts to orchestrate high-value financial fraud. The alert follows a sharp rise in complaints received through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP), with incidents reported from several states, including Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.<\/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-1027367","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\/1027367","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=1027367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027403,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027367\/revisions\/1027403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}