{"id":881479,"date":"2024-11-27T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=881479"},"modified":"2024-11-28T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T11:55:15","slug":"iit-bombay-student-loses-rs-7-lakh-to-digital-arrest-scam-whatsapp-call-from-trai-employee-and-more-how-he-was-duped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/27\/iit-bombay-student-loses-rs-7-lakh-to-digital-arrest-scam-whatsapp-call-from-trai-employee-and-more-how-he-was-duped\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT-Bombay student loses Rs 7 lakh to &#8216;digital arrest scam&#8217;: &#8216;WhatsApp call from TRAI employee&#8217; and more, how he was duped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old IIT Bombay student lost Rs 7.29 lakh after falling victim to a digital arrest scam. According to a PTI report, the fraudsters impersonating as an employee of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) threatened him to pay money, falsely accusing him of money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old IIT Bombay student lost Rs 7.29 lakh after falling victim to a digital arrest scam. According to a PTI report, the fraudsters impersonating as an employee of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) threatened him to pay money, falsely accusing him of money laundering.<\/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":[87,4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881479","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=881479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}