{"id":1046098,"date":"2026-10-31T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046098"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:10:24","slug":"digital-arrest-elderly-couple-duped-of-rs-1-52-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/digital-arrest-elderly-couple-duped-of-rs-1-52-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest: Elderly couple duped of Rs 1.52 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An 80-year-old retired bank manager and his wife were duped of Rs 1.52 crore by fraudsters in a digital arrest scam in Bowenpally. <\/p>\n<p>The victim told the police that on October 19, he received a call from persons posing as representatives of Data Protection India Limited, Mumbai, who falsely claimed that his Aadhaar was linked to money laundering and anti-national activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An 80-year-old retired bank manager and his wife were duped of Rs 1.52 crore by fraudsters in a digital arrest scam in Bowenpally. The victim told the police that on October 19, he received a call from persons posing as representatives of Data Protection India Limited, Mumbai, who falsely claimed that his Aadhaar was linked to money laundering and anti-national activities.<\/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-1046098","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\/1046098","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=1046098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046110,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046098\/revisions\/1046110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}