{"id":1046885,"date":"2026-11-04T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046885"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:28:08","slug":"chennai-gang-uses-app-to-mimic-woman-lures-youth-and-hacks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/chennai-gang-uses-app-to-mimic-woman-lures-youth-and-hacks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai gang uses app to mimic woman, lures youth and hacks him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Peerkankaranai police arrested a five-member gang, including a juvenile, on Monday for allegedly luring a 24-year-old man using a woman\u2019s voice on a mobile application, demanding Rs 10,000 from him and hacking him with machetes when he escaped. <\/p>\n<p>The accused were identified as Harish (23), Anbarasu (21), Abhishek (19), Ajith (18) and a 17-year-old boy. Anbarasu allegedly impersonated a woman\u2019s voice to lure Nitish Kumar of Kallakurichi, who had moved to Chennai for a delivery job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Peerkankaranai police arrested a five-member gang, including a juvenile, on Monday for allegedly luring a 24-year-old man using a woman\u2019s voice on a mobile application, demanding Rs 10,000 from him and hacking him with machetes when he escaped. The accused were identified as Harish (23), Anbarasu (21), Abhishek (19), Ajith (18) and a 17-year-old boy. Anbarasu allegedly impersonated a woman\u2019s voice to lure Nitish Kumar of Kallakurichi, who had moved to Chennai for a delivery job.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046885","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\/1046885","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=1046885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046910,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046885\/revisions\/1046910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}