{"id":1028676,"date":"2026-08-13T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028676"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:01:09","slug":"online-friendship-costs-lko-youth-%e2%82%b968l-stf-nabs-nigerian-fraudster-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/online-friendship-costs-lko-youth-%e2%82%b968l-stf-nabs-nigerian-fraudster-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Online \u2018friendship\u2019 costs Lko youth \u20b968L; STF nabs Nigerian fraudster in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW It began with a Facebook \u2018friendship\u2019 with a woman who claimed to be from England and ended with a Lucknow youth allegedly losing \u20b968 lakh to a sophisticated cyber fraud network, according to the UP Special Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>The STF has now arrested a 37-year-old Nigerian national allegedly wanted in the case, unravelling the chain of deception that investigators said was built around a fake foreign identity, promises of expensive gifts and repeated demands for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW It began with a Facebook \u2018friendship\u2019 with a woman who claimed to be from England and ended with a Lucknow youth allegedly losing \u20b968 lakh to a sophisticated cyber fraud network, according to the UP Special Task Force. The STF has now arrested a 37-year-old Nigerian national allegedly wanted in the case, unravelling the chain of deception that investigators said was built around a fake foreign identity, promises of expensive gifts and repeated demands for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028676","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028677,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028676\/revisions\/1028677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}