{"id":1033207,"date":"2026-09-04T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033207"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:40:24","slug":"tn-crypto-scam-ring-had-agents-up-to-20-levels-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/04\/tn-crypto-scam-ring-had-agents-up-to-20-levels-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"TN crypto scam ring had agents up to 20 levels deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADURAI: Preliminary police investigation into the FQL cryptocurrency investment scam revealed the fraudulent operation was carried out by agents working in at least 20 levels. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TNIE on condition of anonymity, a senior police official stated that they are not sure whether Ranjith from Melur was the kingpin. As of now, the agents are pointing fingers at him and his close family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADURAI: Preliminary police investigation into the FQL cryptocurrency investment scam revealed the fraudulent operation was carried out by agents working in at least 20 levels. Speaking to TNIE on condition of anonymity, a senior police official stated that they are not sure whether Ranjith from Melur was the kingpin. As of now, the agents are pointing fingers at him and his close family members.<\/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-1033207","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\/1033207","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=1033207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033225,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033207\/revisions\/1033225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}