{"id":893935,"date":"2025-01-08T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=893935"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:17:44","slug":"retired-smo-in-amritsar-loses-rs-23-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/08\/retired-smo-in-amritsar-loses-rs-23-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired SMO in Amritsar loses Rs 23 lakh in \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old retired Senior Medical Officer (SMO) from Amritsar fell victim to a cyber-fraud, losing Rs 23 lakh to scammers posing as law enforcement officers from Mumbai. The incident occurred on December 5, 2024, and a case was registered after a preliminary probe. <\/p>\n<p>The victim received a WhatsApp call from the scammers, who claimed he was involved in a money laundering case at Tilak Nagar Andheri police station in Mumbai. Despite the victim\u2019s denial, the scammers convinced him to share his bank account details and transfer Rs 23 lakh to an educational and charitable trust in Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old retired Senior Medical Officer (SMO) from Amritsar fell victim to a cyber-fraud, losing Rs 23 lakh to scammers posing as law enforcement officers from Mumbai. The incident occurred on December 5, 2024, and a case was registered after a preliminary probe. The victim received a WhatsApp call from the scammers, who claimed he was involved in a money laundering case at Tilak Nagar Andheri police station in Mumbai. Despite the victim\u2019s denial, the scammers convinced him to share his bank account details and transfer Rs 23 lakh to an educational and charitable trust in Karnataka.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893935","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=893935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}