{"id":1034817,"date":"2026-09-12T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034817"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:57:46","slug":"perumbavoor-woman-loses-rs-1-72-crore-in-digital-arrest-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/perumbavoor-woman-loses-rs-1-72-crore-in-digital-arrest-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Perumbavoor woman loses Rs 1.72 crore in digital arrest fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: A 56-year-old woman from Perumbavoor allegedly lost Rs 1.72 crore after an unidentified person impersonating an Indian Consulate official placed her under a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d and induced her to transfer the money to a cryptocurrency wallet, according to the FIR. <\/p>\n<p>The Ernakulam Rural Cyber Police have registered a case and launched an investigation into the fraud. <\/p>\n<p>According to the FIR, the accused allegedly claimed that a transaction worth Rs 9 crore had been made through her son\u2019s account and told her that, to avoid arrest, the money in their possession had to be checked and returned after being verified as legitimate funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: A 56-year-old woman from Perumbavoor allegedly lost Rs 1.72 crore after an unidentified person impersonating an Indian Consulate official placed her under a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d and induced her to transfer the money to a cryptocurrency wallet, according to the FIR. The Ernakulam Rural Cyber Police have registered a case and launched an investigation into the fraud. According to the FIR, the accused allegedly claimed that a transaction worth Rs 9 crore had been made through her son\u2019s account and told her that, to avoid arrest, the money in their possession had to be checked and returned after being verified [&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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034817","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\/1034817","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=1034817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034834,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034817\/revisions\/1034834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}