{"id":892254,"date":"2025-01-02T07:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=892254"},"modified":"2025-01-02T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:56:13","slug":"cyber-frauds-whatsapp-telegram-and-instagram-are-top-targets-of-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/02\/cyber-frauds-whatsapp-telegram-and-instagram-are-top-targets-of-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber frauds : WhatsApp, Telegram and Instagram are top targets of scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging application WhatsApp, together with social media platforms Telegram and Instagram, continues to be the prime target for online scammers, according to a latest report from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). <\/p>\n<p>In the first three months of 2024, there was a total of 43,797 complaints of cyber fraud related to WhatsApp, 22,680 against Telegram, and 19,800 regarding Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging application WhatsApp, together with social media platforms Telegram and Instagram, continues to be the prime target for online scammers, according to a latest report from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). In the first three months of 2024, there was a total of 43,797 complaints of cyber fraud related to WhatsApp, 22,680 against Telegram, and 19,800 regarding Instagram.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892254","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=892254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}