{"id":1035077,"date":"2026-09-14T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035077"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:40:36","slug":"unregulated-loan-apps-deceive-blue-collar-workers-with-real-transfer-of-decoy-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/14\/unregulated-loan-apps-deceive-blue-collar-workers-with-real-transfer-of-decoy-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Unregulated loan apps deceive blue-collar workers with real transfer of decoy funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A network of unregulated mobile loan applications promising instant cash, several of them running from beyond borders, are targeting the blue-collar workforce and trapping daily-wage earners in cycles of debt and extortion. <\/p>\n<p>A TMS investigation, involving direct interaction with individuals operating two such applications, found operators claiming to work from Pakistan, Bangladesh and a \u201ccyber city\u201d in Thailand. These apps sit comfortably on the Google Play Store. They disappear when regulators catch up, but resurface under a new identity offering the same services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A network of unregulated mobile loan applications promising instant cash, several of them running from beyond borders, are targeting the blue-collar workforce and trapping daily-wage earners in cycles of debt and extortion. A TMS investigation, involving direct interaction with individuals operating two such applications, found operators claiming to work from Pakistan, Bangladesh and a \u201ccyber city\u201d in Thailand. These apps sit comfortably on the Google Play Store. They disappear when regulators catch up, but resurface under a new identity offering the same services.<\/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-1035077","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\/1035077","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=1035077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035108,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035077\/revisions\/1035108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}