{"id":883974,"date":"2024-12-04T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=883974"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:59:27","slug":"analogue-response-to-digital-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/04\/analogue-response-to-digital-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogue response to \u2018digital arrest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: As a standup comedian, I am used to calls from unknown numbers. The callers usually introduce themselves, bargain for a price, and then ask me to recommend other comics within the same price. So when I received a call from Mumbai, I thought nothing of it. <\/p>\n<p>A gentleman on the other side informed me that a package containing MDMA was caught by customs at the Mumbai airport. I thought of all my friends in Mumbai \u2013 honest, hardworking, law-abiding citizens. It was only when the person asked me to switch on my video, did I realise that I was a part of the \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: As a standup comedian, I am used to calls from unknown numbers. The callers usually introduce themselves, bargain for a price, and then ask me to recommend other comics within the same price. So when I received a call from Mumbai, I thought nothing of it. A gentleman on the other side informed me that a package containing MDMA was caught by customs at the Mumbai airport. I thought of all my friends in Mumbai \u2013 honest, hardworking, law-abiding citizens. It was only when the person asked me to switch on my video, did I realise that I was [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883974","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=883974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}