{"id":1040368,"date":"2026-10-02T08:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040368"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:01:59","slug":"call-centre-busted-for-allegedly-defrauding-elderly-japanese-nationals-5-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/call-centre-busted-for-allegedly-defrauding-elderly-japanese-nationals-5-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Call centre busted for allegedly defrauding elderly Japanese nationals; 5 held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested five people for allegedly running a call centre in Mughalsarai that targeted elderly Japanese nationals by gaining access to their computers and mobile phones and siphoning off large amounts of money, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>About Rs 9 lakh kept in two bank accounts belonging to one of the accused has been frozen, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar) Vikram Dahiya said the accused primarily targeted elderly people in Japan. They allegedly contacted victims through Zoiper, an internet-based calling application, and screen-sharing software before gaining their trust and infecting their computers or mobile phones with viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested five people for allegedly running a call centre in Mughalsarai that targeted elderly Japanese nationals by gaining access to their computers and mobile phones and siphoning off large amounts of money, officials said. About Rs 9 lakh kept in two bank accounts belonging to one of the accused has been frozen, police said. Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar) Vikram Dahiya said the accused primarily targeted elderly people in Japan. They allegedly contacted victims through Zoiper, an internet-based calling application, and screen-sharing software before gaining their trust and infecting their computers or mobile phones with viruses.<\/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":[81,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040368","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=1040368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040379,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040368\/revisions\/1040379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}