{"id":873257,"date":"2024-11-05T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=873257"},"modified":"2024-11-05T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:24:06","slug":"no-legal-basis-for-digital-arrests-anywhere-deceptive-tactics-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/05\/no-legal-basis-for-digital-arrests-anywhere-deceptive-tactics-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"No legal basis for digital arrests anywhere: Deceptive tactics decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posing as CBI and RBI officials, suspected cybercriminals recently put a retired banker and his wife under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; for five days in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Meerut district and convinced the elderly couple to transfer more than Rs 1 crore to them. <\/p>\n<p>There is nothing called digital arrest in the law <\/p>\n<p>Digital arrest refers to a deceptive tactic used by cybercriminals, who falsely claim to have the authority to arrest an individual through digital means, often over the phone or via online communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posing as CBI and RBI officials, suspected cybercriminals recently put a retired banker and his wife under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; for five days in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Meerut district and convinced the elderly couple to transfer more than Rs 1 crore to them. There is nothing called digital arrest in the law Digital arrest refers to a deceptive tactic used by cybercriminals, who falsely claim to have the authority to arrest an individual through digital means, often over the phone or via online communication.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873257","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=873257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}