{"id":1032952,"date":"2026-09-03T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032952"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:36:22","slug":"gujarat-police-arrest-20-year-old-in-online-scam-that-duped-businessman-of-rs-26-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/gujarat-police-arrest-20-year-old-in-online-scam-that-duped-businessman-of-rs-26-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat police arrest 20-year-old in online scam that duped businessman of Rs 26 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Police\u2019s Surat cyber cell has arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly processing transactions linked to an online scam that defrauded a businessman. <\/p>\n<p>The accused is identified as Aditya Pandey, while efforts are underway to trace the alleged mastermind, Arif, who is currently absconding. <\/p>\n<p>A Surat businessman\u2019s bid to earn easy money through social media allegedly turned into a costly cyber trap, with fraudsters first paying him Rs 150 for simple online tasks such as liking a post, before allegedly persuading him to invest money through a fake investment platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Police\u2019s Surat cyber cell has arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly processing transactions linked to an online scam that defrauded a businessman. The accused is identified as Aditya Pandey, while efforts are underway to trace the alleged mastermind, Arif, who is currently absconding. A Surat businessman\u2019s bid to earn easy money through social media allegedly turned into a costly cyber trap, with fraudsters first paying him Rs 150 for simple online tasks such as liking a post, before allegedly persuading him to invest money through a fake investment platform.<\/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-1032952","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\/1032952","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=1032952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032969,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032952\/revisions\/1032969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}