{"id":892618,"date":"2025-01-03T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=892618"},"modified":"2025-01-03T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:29:03","slug":"govt-raises-red-flag-over-pig-butchering-scam-heres-what-home-ministry-just-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/03\/govt-raises-red-flag-over-pig-butchering-scam-heres-what-home-ministry-just-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt raises red flag over &#8216;pig butchering scam&#8217;; here&#8217;s what Home Ministry just found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new online scam called &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; is targeting more and more vulnerable people in India, including unemployed youth, housewives, students, and those in need, news agency PTI reported on January 2 citing the Union Home Ministry&#8217;s annual report. The scam, also known as an &#8220;investment scam,&#8221; tricks people into losing large sums of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new online scam called &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; is targeting more and more vulnerable people in India, including unemployed youth, housewives, students, and those in need, news agency PTI reported on January 2 citing the Union Home Ministry&#8217;s annual report. The scam, also known as an &#8220;investment scam,&#8221; tricks people into losing large sums of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892618","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}