{"id":873732,"date":"2024-11-06T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T02:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=873732"},"modified":"2024-11-06T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:04:27","slug":"from-fake-stocks-to-deepfakes-cybercriminals-target-elderly-in-rising-indian-online-scam-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/06\/from-fake-stocks-to-deepfakes-cybercriminals-target-elderly-in-rising-indian-online-scam-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"From fake stocks to deepfakes: Cybercriminals target elderly in rising Indian online scam wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking incident that underscores the sharp rise in online scams in India, a 63-year-old man from Hyderabad was recently defrauded of \u20b950 lakh after joining a fraudulent stock market scheme organised through a WhatsApp group. The case highlights the vulnerability of elderly citizens in the digital landscape, as they are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals with sophisticated tactics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking incident that underscores the sharp rise in online scams in India, a 63-year-old man from Hyderabad was recently defrauded of \u20b950 lakh after joining a fraudulent stock market scheme organised through a WhatsApp group. The case highlights the vulnerability of elderly citizens in the digital landscape, as they are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals with sophisticated tactics.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873732","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=873732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}