{"id":1046656,"date":"2026-11-03T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046656"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:42:10","slug":"thane-man-duped-of-rs-2-5-lakh-by-fraudster-posing-as-ats-officer-probe-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/03\/thane-man-duped-of-rs-2-5-lakh-by-fraudster-posing-as-ats-officer-probe-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Thane man duped of Rs 2.5 lakh by fraudster posing as ATS officer; probe underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have registered a case of cyber fraud after a social worker in Maharashtra&#8217;s Thane district was allegedly threatened and cheated of Rs 2.5 lakh by a caller posing as an officer of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), officials said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Murlidhar Harpaldas Makhija, an Ulhasnagar resident who works as a social worker, stated in his complaint that he received a WhatsApp call from an unknown number in March. The caller introduced himself as &#8216;Pramod Mishra&#8217; from the ATS in Pune, a police official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have registered a case of cyber fraud after a social worker in Maharashtra&#8217;s Thane district was allegedly threatened and cheated of Rs 2.5 lakh by a caller posing as an officer of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), officials said on Monday. Murlidhar Harpaldas Makhija, an Ulhasnagar resident who works as a social worker, stated in his complaint that he received a WhatsApp call from an unknown number in March. The caller introduced himself as &#8216;Pramod Mishra&#8217; from the ATS in Pune, a police official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046656","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046665,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046656\/revisions\/1046665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}