{"id":854524,"date":"2024-09-11T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=854524"},"modified":"2024-09-11T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:35:19","slug":"parcel-to-iran-karnataka-man-loses-rs-30-lakh-to-cyber-scammer-posing-as-mumbai-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/11\/parcel-to-iran-karnataka-man-loses-rs-30-lakh-to-cyber-scammer-posing-as-mumbai-cop\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcel to Iran: Karnataka man loses Rs 30 lakh to cyber-scammer posing as Mumbai cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: A man from the Surathkal police station limits has lost Rs 30 lakh to a cyber fraudster who falsely claimed to be the DIG of the Crime Branch Anti-Corruption Cell, Mumbai. <\/p>\n<p>In a complaint, the victim stated that he received a call via Skype on September 2 from someone claiming to be the DIG. The caller, conversing in Hindi and English, alleged that a parcel sent by the victim to Iran contained drugs and other illegal items, which had been seized by the Anti-Corruption Cell. The caller further threatened that legal action would be taken against the victim. Additionally, the fraudster claimed that 24 fake accounts had been opened in the victim&#8217;s name, through which 24 million dollars had been transferred illegally via hawala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: A man from the Surathkal police station limits has lost Rs 30 lakh to a cyber fraudster who falsely claimed to be the DIG of the Crime Branch Anti-Corruption Cell, Mumbai. In a complaint, the victim stated that he received a call via Skype on September 2 from someone claiming to be the DIG. The caller, conversing in Hindi and English, alleged that a parcel sent by the victim to Iran contained drugs and other illegal items, which had been seized by the Anti-Corruption Cell. The caller further threatened that legal action would be taken against the victim. Additionally, [&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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854524","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=854524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}