{"id":1030334,"date":"2026-08-21T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030334"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:21:38","slug":"ahmedabad-cyber-police-bust-boss-scam-ring-exposing-4500-sim-cards-and-21000-otps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/ahmedabad-cyber-police-bust-boss-scam-ring-exposing-4500-sim-cards-and-21000-otps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmedabad Cyber Police bust \u2018Boss Scam\u2019 ring, exposing 4,500 SIM cards and 21,000 OTPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One WhatsApp \u201cBoss Scam\u201d involving `1.5 crore in Ahmedabad led Gujarat Police to discover a large international cybercrime network operating in India, China, Pakistan and Hong Kong. As a result, the officers arrested two of the main suppliers from West Bengal, seized almost 4,500 dummy SIM cards, traced the sale of more than 21,000 OTPs, and obtained over 10,000 infected devices throughout the country. <\/p>\n<p>The case started in June when an employee was tricked into transferring `1.5 crore after scammers impersonated a senior company executive, or \u201cboss.\u201d The scammers used malicious ZIP files and malware sent through WhatsApp or email to take over the executive\u2019s digital identity, change contact numbers, and request urgent money transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One WhatsApp \u201cBoss Scam\u201d involving `1.5 crore in Ahmedabad led Gujarat Police to discover a large international cybercrime network operating in India, China, Pakistan and Hong Kong. As a result, the officers arrested two of the main suppliers from West Bengal, seized almost 4,500 dummy SIM cards, traced the sale of more than 21,000 OTPs, and obtained over 10,000 infected devices throughout the country. The case started in June when an employee was tricked into transferring `1.5 crore after scammers impersonated a senior company executive, or \u201cboss.\u201d The scammers used malicious ZIP files and malware sent through WhatsApp or email [&hellip;]<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030334","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=1030334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030335,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030334\/revisions\/1030335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}