{"id":836254,"date":"2024-07-23T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=836254"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T05:36:28","slug":"whale-phishing-real-estate-firm-loses-rs-40-lakh-as-cyber-fraudsters-pose-as-company-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/23\/whale-phishing-real-estate-firm-loses-rs-40-lakh-as-cyber-fraudsters-pose-as-company-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale phishing: Real estate firm loses Rs 40 lakh as cyber fraudsters pose as company director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IN A suspected case of whale phishing, a city-based real estate company was swindled to the tune of Rs 40 lakh by cyber criminals posing as the company\u2019s director and tricked a company\u2019s staffer into making large transfers to a fraudulent bank account.<\/p>\n<p>After the preliminary inquiry by a team from the Cyber Crime police station of Pune city police, an FIR was registered at Deccan Gymkhana police station on Sunday based on a complaint filed by the 39-year-old director of the real estate firm. A probe has been launched into the whale phishing, also referred to as \u2018spear phishing scam\u2019 or \u2018CEO scam.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN A suspected case of whale phishing, a city-based real estate company was swindled to the tune of Rs 40 lakh by cyber criminals posing as the company\u2019s director and tricked a company\u2019s staffer into making large transfers to a fraudulent bank account. After the preliminary inquiry by a team from the Cyber Crime police station of Pune city police, an FIR was registered at Deccan Gymkhana police station on Sunday based on a complaint filed by the 39-year-old director of the real estate firm. A probe has been launched into the whale phishing, also referred to as \u2018spear phishing [&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-836254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836254","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=836254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}