{"id":879714,"date":"2024-11-22T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=879714"},"modified":"2024-11-22T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T03:52:56","slug":"techie-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-loses-rs-6-29-crore-to-cyber-frauds-posing-as-cbi-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/22\/techie-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-loses-rs-6-29-crore-to-cyber-frauds-posing-as-cbi-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Techie falls prey to \u2018digital arrest\u2019, loses Rs 6.29 crore to cyber frauds posing as CBI officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the largest individual cyber fraud ever registered with Pune City police, a 59-year-old senior IT executive from Pashan lost a staggering Rs 6.29 crore \u2014 nearly his entire life savings \u2014 to online criminals who posed as CBI officers. <\/p>\n<p>The fraudsters threatened action in connection with a money laundering case, placing him under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 at his home and forcing him to remain on video call over several hours on the pretext of \u2018surveillance.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the largest individual cyber fraud ever registered with Pune City police, a 59-year-old senior IT executive from Pashan lost a staggering Rs 6.29 crore \u2014 nearly his entire life savings \u2014 to online criminals who posed as CBI officers. The fraudsters threatened action in connection with a money laundering case, placing him under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 at his home and forcing him to remain on video call over several hours on the pretext of \u2018surveillance.\u2019<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879714","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=879714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}