{"id":830563,"date":"2024-07-08T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830563"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:45:46","slug":"elderly-doctor-gets-a-call-to-update-his-electricity-bill-conned-of-nearly-rs-6-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/08\/elderly-doctor-gets-a-call-to-update-his-electricity-bill-conned-of-nearly-rs-6-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly doctor gets a call to update his electricity bill, conned of nearly Rs 6 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Shiv Shankar Saha, a call to update his electricity bill seemed like a regular one from customer care. It was only after the call ended that the 67-year-old realised that a whopping sum of nearly Rs 6 lakh had been charged to his credit card. <\/p>\n<p>On June 16, Saha, a doctor and a resident of Safdarjung Enclave, registered a complaint on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) alleging he received a call to update his BSES electricity bill. The caller asked him to pay a nominal amount of Rs 10 for updating the bill and Saha paid with his HSBC credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Shiv Shankar Saha, a call to update his electricity bill seemed like a regular one from customer care. It was only after the call ended that the 67-year-old realised that a whopping sum of nearly Rs 6 lakh had been charged to his credit card. On June 16, Saha, a doctor and a resident of Safdarjung Enclave, registered a complaint on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) alleging he received a call to update his BSES electricity bill. The caller asked him to pay a nominal amount of Rs 10 for updating the bill and Saha paid with his [&hellip;]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830563","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=830563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}