{"id":1028970,"date":"2026-08-15T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028970"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:50:35","slug":"received-link-to-pay-rto-fine-beware-its-a-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/received-link-to-pay-rto-fine-beware-its-a-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Received link to pay RTO fine? Beware, it\u2019s a trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: Cyber fraudsters no longer target people only through deceptive emails, phone calls, crypto currency and task scams &#8212; the new tool in their arsenal is fake RTO challan message and malicious APK file sent through WhatsApp. Residents of Tiruchy city have allegedly lost about Rs 1.2 crore to Rs 1.6 crore in such scams since January. Police said a total of 185 complaints have been received in the last seven months with an average of 20 to 30 complaints every month with estimated losses of Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRUCHY: Cyber fraudsters no longer target people only through deceptive emails, phone calls, crypto currency and task scams &#8212; the new tool in their arsenal is fake RTO challan message and malicious APK file sent through WhatsApp. Residents of Tiruchy city have allegedly lost about Rs 1.2 crore to Rs 1.6 crore in such scams since January. Police said a total of 185 complaints have been received in the last seven months with an average of 20 to 30 complaints every month with estimated losses of Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.<\/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-1028970","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\/1028970","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=1028970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028986,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028970\/revisions\/1028986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}