{"id":1040664,"date":"2026-10-03T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040664"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:36:44","slug":"retired-chandigarh-schoolteacher-loses-%e2%82%b948-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/retired-chandigarh-schoolteacher-loses-%e2%82%b948-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Chandigarh schoolteacher loses \u20b948 lakh in \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired schoolteacher from Sector 20 allegedly lost \u20b948 lakh to cyber fraudsters who subjected her to a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d while posing as police, Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers.<\/p>\n<p>A digital arrest is a cyber extortion scam where fraudsters impersonate law enforcement or government officials on video calls to trick victims into believing they face immediate arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired schoolteacher from Sector 20 allegedly lost \u20b948 lakh to cyber fraudsters who subjected her to a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d while posing as police, Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers. A digital arrest is a cyber extortion scam where fraudsters impersonate law enforcement or government officials on video calls to trick victims into believing they face immediate arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040664","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040665,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040664\/revisions\/1040665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}