{"id":909276,"date":"2025-02-27T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=909276"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:46:36","slug":"berhampur-varsity-vc-loses-rs-14l-in-digital-arrest-scam-know-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/berhampur-varsity-vc-loses-rs-14l-in-digital-arrest-scam-know-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Berhampur varsity VC loses Rs 14L in digital arrest scam; Know how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a cyber fraud case, Berhampur University Vice-Chancellor Geetanjali Dash lost Rs 14 lakh to a scammer posing as an Enforcement Directorate (ED) official. On February 12, the fraudster placed Dash under a so-called \u2018digital arrest\u2019, falsely claiming she was implicated in an ED case involving crores of rupees transferred to a bank account in her name, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A fraudster who claimed she had been \u2018digitally arrested\u2019, demanded Rs 14 lakh for her release. She believed them and transferred the money to the account they provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a cyber fraud case, Berhampur University Vice-Chancellor Geetanjali Dash lost Rs 14 lakh to a scammer posing as an Enforcement Directorate (ED) official. On February 12, the fraudster placed Dash under a so-called \u2018digital arrest\u2019, falsely claiming she was implicated in an ED case involving crores of rupees transferred to a bank account in her name, police said. A fraudster who claimed she had been \u2018digitally arrested\u2019, demanded Rs 14 lakh for her release. She believed them and transferred the money to the account they provided.<\/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-909276","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\/909276","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=909276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}