{"id":1044643,"date":"2026-10-19T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044643"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:58:36","slug":"mohali-tricked-into-installing-fake-gas-app-man-loses-%e2%82%b96l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/mohali-tricked-into-installing-fake-gas-app-man-loses-%e2%82%b96l\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohali: Tricked into installing fake gas app, man loses \u20b96L"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cybercrime police have booked unidentified suspects for allegedly siphoning \u20b96 lakh from a 58-year-old Mohali resident\u2019s bank account and credit card after tricking him into installing a mobile application to clear a pending piped gas bill.<\/p>\n<p>Complainant Inderpreet Singh of Sector 109, who deals in laboratory chemicals in Chandigarh, reported that his son Tushar Walia, a software engineer living in Gurugram, received WhatsApp messages and voice calls from his landlord on August 24 who allegedly told him to contact a man named Vinay Malhotra to pay a pending piped gas bill, warning that the authorities would disconnect the supply in case of non-payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cybercrime police have booked unidentified suspects for allegedly siphoning \u20b96 lakh from a 58-year-old Mohali resident\u2019s bank account and credit card after tricking him into installing a mobile application to clear a pending piped gas bill. Complainant Inderpreet Singh of Sector 109, who deals in laboratory chemicals in Chandigarh, reported that his son Tushar Walia, a software engineer living in Gurugram, received WhatsApp messages and voice calls from his landlord on August 24 who allegedly told him to contact a man named Vinay Malhotra to pay a pending piped gas bill, warning that the authorities would disconnect the supply [&hellip;]<\/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-1044643","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\/1044643","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=1044643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044644,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044643\/revisions\/1044644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}