{"id":887986,"date":"2024-12-16T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=887986"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:07:21","slug":"cyber-fraudsters-pose-as-traffic-cops-to-dupe-80-year-old-of-rs-30l-in-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/16\/cyber-fraudsters-pose-as-traffic-cops-to-dupe-80-year-old-of-rs-30l-in-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber fraudsters pose as traffic cops to dupe 80-year-old of Rs 30L in Kochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Having tried their luck with the CBI, ED and the police, cyber fraudsters are now impersonating traffic police personnel to siphon off money from people.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent incident, an 80-year-old Panampilly Nagar resident lost Rs 30 lakh after he was approached by a cyber fraudster posing as a Bengaluru traffic police inspector.<\/p>\n<p>It was on November 22 that the victim received a WhatsApp call from an unknown number. When he responded, the caller was introduced as a woman inspector with the Bengaluru traffic police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Having tried their luck with the CBI, ED and the police, cyber fraudsters are now impersonating traffic police personnel to siphon off money from people. In a recent incident, an 80-year-old Panampilly Nagar resident lost Rs 30 lakh after he was approached by a cyber fraudster posing as a Bengaluru traffic police inspector. It was on November 22 that the victim received a WhatsApp call from an unknown number. When he responded, the caller was introduced as a woman inspector with the Bengaluru traffic police.<\/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-887986","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\/887986","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=887986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}