{"id":825385,"date":"2024-06-24T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=825385"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:06:59","slug":"professor-loses-rs-8-lakh-to-fake-fedex-parcel-scam-how-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/24\/professor-loses-rs-8-lakh-to-fake-fedex-parcel-scam-how-to-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor loses Rs 8 lakh to fake FedEx parcel scam: How to stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of gullible ones falling prey to cyber fraud, a 33-year old assistant professor lost Rs 7.9 lakh to a fake parcel scam. Namrata, a resident of Udupi, Karnataka received a call from a cyber criminal impersonating as a FedEx employee. On being threatened that an FIR has been registered on her name, Rs 7.9 lakh was extorted falsely from the victim on the false pretext of police verification.<br \/>\nA case has been registered at the Manipal station under sections 66(C), 66(D) of the Information Technology Act and IPC sections 419 and 420.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of gullible ones falling prey to cyber fraud, a 33-year old assistant professor lost Rs 7.9 lakh to a fake parcel scam. Namrata, a resident of Udupi, Karnataka received a call from a cyber criminal impersonating as a FedEx employee. On being threatened that an FIR has been registered on her name, Rs 7.9 lakh was extorted falsely from the victim on the false pretext of police verification. A case has been registered at the Manipal station under sections 66(C), 66(D) of the Information Technology Act and IPC sections 419 and 420.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825385","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}