{"id":897562,"date":"2025-01-20T08:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897562"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:28:52","slug":"cyber-fraudsters-use-fake-gift-mobiles-to-steal-rs-2-8-crore-from-techie-in-whitefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/20\/cyber-fraudsters-use-fake-gift-mobiles-to-steal-rs-2-8-crore-from-techie-in-whitefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber fraudsters use fake gift mobiles to steal Rs 2.8 crore from techie in Whitefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: After the \u2018dubious parcel at Customs\u2019 scam and \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scare, cyber fraudsters have come up a new trick to reach your money: a gift of a free mobile or tablet which gladdens the receiver. This one is delivered to the doorstep from unknown people, claiming they are from banks. <\/p>\n<p>Beware, it\u2019s only a Trojan horse from cyber fraudsters. The mobile is likely be cloned, and once the receiver inserts a SIM card, all banking details and OTPs are shared with the con gang. One such case was registered with Whitefield CEN police station, of a techie losing Rs 2.8 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: After the \u2018dubious parcel at Customs\u2019 scam and \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scare, cyber fraudsters have come up a new trick to reach your money: a gift of a free mobile or tablet which gladdens the receiver. This one is delivered to the doorstep from unknown people, claiming they are from banks. Beware, it\u2019s only a Trojan horse from cyber fraudsters. The mobile is likely be cloned, and once the receiver inserts a SIM card, all banking details and OTPs are shared with the con gang. One such case was registered with Whitefield CEN police station, of a techie losing Rs [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897562","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=897562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}