{"id":908439,"date":"2025-02-24T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=908439"},"modified":"2025-02-24T06:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:55:13","slug":"cybercrime-team-busts-inter-state-digital-arrest-scam-82-year-old-victim-loses-rs-1-38-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/24\/cybercrime-team-busts-inter-state-digital-arrest-scam-82-year-old-victim-loses-rs-1-38-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercrime team busts inter-state digital arrest scam, 82-year-old victim loses Rs 1.38 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad Cybercrime team has busted an inter-state \u2018digital arrest scam\u2019 in Hyderabad, where an 82-year-old retired engineer was made to part with Rs 1.38 crore. <\/p>\n<p>According to the victim\u2019s complaint lodged in September 2024, the elderly man received a call from a fraudster posing as an SBI representative. <\/p>\n<p>The caller told him that an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) case had been filed against him. The victim was then connected to a fake Mumbai Cyber Crime officer via WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad Cybercrime team has busted an inter-state \u2018digital arrest scam\u2019 in Hyderabad, where an 82-year-old retired engineer was made to part with Rs 1.38 crore. According to the victim\u2019s complaint lodged in September 2024, the elderly man received a call from a fraudster posing as an SBI representative. The caller told him that an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) case had been filed against him. The victim was then connected to a fake Mumbai Cyber Crime officer via WhatsApp.<\/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-908439","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\/908439","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=908439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}