{"id":907285,"date":"2025-02-20T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907285"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:10:37","slug":"elderly-man-loses-rs-3-lakh-had-called-fake-bank-manager-found-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/20\/elderly-man-loses-rs-3-lakh-had-called-fake-bank-manager-found-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man loses Rs 3 lakh; had called fake bank manager found on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One misstep on the internet cost a senior citizen in Karnataka dearly. He searched for his bank manager\u2019s phone number on Google and fell prey to a scam. A cheat posed as the manager and manipulated him to click a malicious web link, leading to an unauthorised withdrawal of Rs 3 lakh. This is another case of scammers planting fake contact details of banks, hotels and other services on the web to deceive people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One misstep on the internet cost a senior citizen in Karnataka dearly. He searched for his bank manager\u2019s phone number on Google and fell prey to a scam. A cheat posed as the manager and manipulated him to click a malicious web link, leading to an unauthorised withdrawal of Rs 3 lakh. This is another case of scammers planting fake contact details of banks, hotels and other services on the web to deceive people.<\/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-907285","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\/907285","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=907285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}