{"id":871843,"date":"2024-10-30T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=871843"},"modified":"2024-10-30T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:51:10","slug":"mumbai-senior-citizen-placed-under-digital-arrest-by-online-fraudsters-forced-to-pay-rs-14-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/30\/mumbai-senior-citizen-placed-under-digital-arrest-by-online-fraudsters-forced-to-pay-rs-14-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: Senior citizen placed under &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; by online fraudsters, forced to pay Rs 14 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 67-year-old Mumbai-based woman was placed under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; by online fraudsters, who forced her to pay Rs 14 lakh in exchange of clearing her name in a non-existent money laundering case, police have said. <\/p>\n<p>As per the advisory of cyber-security agency CERT-In, a digital arrest is the one in which victims receive a phone call, an e-mail or a message claiming they are under investigation for illegal activities, such as identity theft or money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 67-year-old Mumbai-based woman was placed under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; by online fraudsters, who forced her to pay Rs 14 lakh in exchange of clearing her name in a non-existent money laundering case, police have said. As per the advisory of cyber-security agency CERT-In, a digital arrest is the one in which victims receive a phone call, an e-mail or a message claiming they are under investigation for illegal activities, such as identity theft or money laundering.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871843","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=871843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}