{"id":890812,"date":"2024-12-24T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=890812"},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:05:23","slug":"how-a-man-lost-rs-6-6-lakh-to-canara-bank-kyc-link-sent-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/24\/how-a-man-lost-rs-6-6-lakh-to-canara-bank-kyc-link-sent-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"How a man lost Rs 6.6 lakh to &#8216;Canara Bank KYC link\u2019 sent on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mangaluru resident reportedly lost Rs 6.6 lakh in an APK file scam on WhatsApp. The victim received a deceptive message from a WhatsApp group, which seemed like being from Canara Bank and warned him of account closure unless details were updated through a provided link. The victim downloaded the link, which led to a fraudulent bank interface requesting sensitive information. According to a complaint filed at Kavoor Police Station (seen by TOI) unauthorised transactions of Rs 6.6 lakh were made from the account despite him not sharing OTPs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mangaluru resident reportedly lost Rs 6.6 lakh in an APK file scam on WhatsApp. The victim received a deceptive message from a WhatsApp group, which seemed like being from Canara Bank and warned him of account closure unless details were updated through a provided link. The victim downloaded the link, which led to a fraudulent bank interface requesting sensitive information. According to a complaint filed at Kavoor Police Station (seen by TOI) unauthorised transactions of Rs 6.6 lakh were made from the account despite him not sharing OTPs.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890812","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=890812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}