{"id":1036652,"date":"2026-09-18T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036652"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:20:52","slug":"digital-arrest-leaves-hyderabads-79-year-old-retiree-poorer-by-rs-15-7-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/digital-arrest-leaves-hyderabads-79-year-old-retiree-poorer-by-rs-15-7-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digital arrest\u2019 leaves Hyderabad&#8217;s 79-year-old retiree poorer by Rs 15.7 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 79-year-old retired government employee from Miyapur allegedly lost Rs 15.7 lakh to a digital arrest scam. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim received a call from an unknown person on August 31, who told him that he was involved in a money-laundering case. The following day, he received another call from the same number and was instructed to speak to a \u2018higher official\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>During a video call, the fraudsters allegedly accused him of involvement in money laundering and terror-funding cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 79-year-old retired government employee from Miyapur allegedly lost Rs 15.7 lakh to a digital arrest scam. According to police, the victim received a call from an unknown person on August 31, who told him that he was involved in a money-laundering case. The following day, he received another call from the same number and was instructed to speak to a \u2018higher official\u2019. During a video call, the fraudsters allegedly accused him of involvement in money laundering and terror-funding cases.<\/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-1036652","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\/1036652","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=1036652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036672,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036652\/revisions\/1036672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}