{"id":888846,"date":"2024-12-18T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=888846"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T03:56:44","slug":"2024-when-cybercrimes-came-closer-home-2025-awareness-alertness-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/18\/2024-when-cybercrimes-came-closer-home-2025-awareness-alertness-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: When cybercrimes came closer home; 2025: awareness, alertness critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most shocking and biggest cyber frauds ever registered with Pune city police this year, a 59-year-old senior IT professional was duped of Rs 6.29 crore by online scammers posing as CBI officers in November. Placing the victim under purported \u201cdigital arrest\u201d for his role in a money laundering case, the cyber criminals forced him to be on a video call for several hours, claiming \u201csurveillance\u201d, and asked him to transfer his funds to multiple \u201cRBI accounts\u201d for \u201cverification\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most shocking and biggest cyber frauds ever registered with Pune city police this year, a 59-year-old senior IT professional was duped of Rs 6.29 crore by online scammers posing as CBI officers in November. Placing the victim under purported \u201cdigital arrest\u201d for his role in a money laundering case, the cyber criminals forced him to be on a video call for several hours, claiming \u201csurveillance\u201d, and asked him to transfer his funds to multiple \u201cRBI accounts\u201d for \u201cverification\u201d.<\/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-888846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888846","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=888846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}