{"id":858405,"date":"2024-09-21T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=858405"},"modified":"2024-09-21T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:55:12","slug":"how-a-man-lost-rs-59-lakh-in-skype-and-whatsapp-video-calls-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/21\/how-a-man-lost-rs-59-lakh-in-skype-and-whatsapp-video-calls-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How a man lost RS 59 lakh in &#8216;Skype and WhatsApp video calls&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man has fallen victim to a sophisticated online scam, losing Rs 59 lakh. The scammers, who spoke fluent English, staged a fake court trial to convince the victim that he was involved in a legal dispute and required a hefty payment to settle the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man has fallen victim to a sophisticated online scam, losing Rs 59 lakh. The scammers, who spoke fluent English, staged a fake court trial to convince the victim that he was involved in a legal dispute and required a hefty payment to settle the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-858405","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\/858405","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}