{"id":1027686,"date":"2026-08-10T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027686"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:06:00","slug":"hyderabad-fraudsters-siphon-rs-102-crore-from-senior-citizens-in-19-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/hyderabad-fraudsters-siphon-rs-102-crore-from-senior-citizens-in-19-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad: Fraudsters siphon Rs 102 crore from senior citizens in 19 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyber fraudsters siphoned Rs 102.02 crore from senior citizens in Hyderabad over the past 19 months, with 403 cybercrime cases involving victims aged above 60 registered between January 2025 and July 31, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, trading frauds accounted for the highest losses, with 113 cases involving Rs 55.88 crore. Fraudsters typically lure victims through WhatsApp and Telegram with promises of high returns from trading using fake apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyber fraudsters siphoned Rs 102.02 crore from senior citizens in Hyderabad over the past 19 months, with 403 cybercrime cases involving victims aged above 60 registered between January 2025 and July 31, 2026. According to police, trading frauds accounted for the highest losses, with 113 cases involving Rs 55.88 crore. Fraudsters typically lure victims through WhatsApp and Telegram with promises of high returns from trading using fake apps.<\/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-1027686","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\/1027686","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=1027686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027703,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027686\/revisions\/1027703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}