{"id":910980,"date":"2025-03-04T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=910980"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:58:54","slug":"digital-arrest-scam-two-including-manpower-agency-owner-arrested-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/04\/digital-arrest-scam-two-including-manpower-agency-owner-arrested-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest scam: Two including manpower agency owner arrested in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: After a woman lodged a complaint about losing Rs 1.16 lakh in a digital arrest scam, the Triplicane Cyber Crime Wing police arrested two men in connection with the fraud on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the police, on February 3, Rizwana Begum received a call from someone posing as a customs officer, claiming a drug-laden parcel had arrived in her name. Shortly after, a man in a police uniform video-called her via WhatsApp, threatening immediate digital arrest unless she paid a fine. Panicked, she transferred Rs 1.16 lakh, only to realise that she had been scammed. She later reported the incident to the Triplicane police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: After a woman lodged a complaint about losing Rs 1.16 lakh in a digital arrest scam, the Triplicane Cyber Crime Wing police arrested two men in connection with the fraud on Saturday. According to the police, on February 3, Rizwana Begum received a call from someone posing as a customs officer, claiming a drug-laden parcel had arrived in her name. Shortly after, a man in a police uniform video-called her via WhatsApp, threatening immediate digital arrest unless she paid a fine. Panicked, she transferred Rs 1.16 lakh, only to realise that she had been scammed. She later reported the [&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-910980","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\/910980","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=910980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}