{"id":1029710,"date":"2026-08-19T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029710"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:38:12","slug":"clicked-on-ad-lost-rs-10-9-lakh-bogus-banking-service-offer-traps-gariahat-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/clicked-on-ad-lost-rs-10-9-lakh-bogus-banking-service-offer-traps-gariahat-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Clicked on ad, lost Rs 10. 9 lakh; bogus banking service offer traps Gariahat senior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 64-year-old Gariahat resident who clicked on a social media advertisement offering banking assistance to senior citizens allegedly lost \u20b910.9 lakh to fraudsters. <\/p>\n<p>Partha Ganguly, a resident of Ballygunge Gardens and a retired executive of a private firm, came across the advertisement on Facebook in July. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant stated that he came across an advertisement on Facebook offering services to senior citizens purportedly on behalf of a nationalised bank. Thereafter, an unknown person contacted him and, after obtaining his mobile number, instructed him to follow his directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 64-year-old Gariahat resident who clicked on a social media advertisement offering banking assistance to senior citizens allegedly lost \u20b910.9 lakh to fraudsters. Partha Ganguly, a resident of Ballygunge Gardens and a retired executive of a private firm, came across the advertisement on Facebook in July. \u201cThe complainant stated that he came across an advertisement on Facebook offering services to senior citizens purportedly on behalf of a nationalised bank. Thereafter, an unknown person contacted him and, after obtaining his mobile number, instructed him to follow his directions.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029710","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=1029710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029729,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029710\/revisions\/1029729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}