{"id":1032092,"date":"2026-08-31T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032092"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:56:29","slug":"read-book-get-paid-hundreds-lose-over-rs-1-crore-to-new-scam-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/read-book-get-paid-hundreds-lose-over-rs-1-crore-to-new-scam-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Read book, get paid&#8217;: Hundreds lose over Rs 1 crore to new scam in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Imagine getting paid for reading a book. It would have been the greatest offer for bibliophiles, and a passive source of income for those who aren\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it was all a scam, as hundreds of people in the state realised after collectively losing over Rs 1 crore. <\/p>\n<p>At least 106 people recently submitted a mass petition to the Thiruvananthapuram Rural cyber police station, alleging that they together lost Rs 1.25 crore to the online scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Imagine getting paid for reading a book. It would have been the greatest offer for bibliophiles, and a passive source of income for those who aren\u2019t. Unfortunately, it was all a scam, as hundreds of people in the state realised after collectively losing over Rs 1 crore. At least 106 people recently submitted a mass petition to the Thiruvananthapuram Rural cyber police station, alleging that they together lost Rs 1.25 crore to the online scam.<\/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-1032092","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\/1032092","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=1032092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032115,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032092\/revisions\/1032115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}