{"id":915018,"date":"2025-03-18T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=915018"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:44:56","slug":"mumbai-woman-loses-rs-20-crore-in-one-of-indias-longest-digital-arrest-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/18\/mumbai-woman-loses-rs-20-crore-in-one-of-indias-longest-digital-arrest-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai woman loses Rs 20 crore in one of India&#8217;s longest &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking case of cyber fraud, an 86-year-old woman from Mumbai was duped of Rs 20.25 crore in one of India&#8217;s longest-running &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; scams. The fraud, which spanned over two months from December 26, 2024, to March 3, 2025, involved scammers posing as police officials and exploiting the victim&#8217;s fear of legal repercussions.<\/p>\n<p>How the Rs 20 crore digital arrest scam unfolded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking case of cyber fraud, an 86-year-old woman from Mumbai was duped of Rs 20.25 crore in one of India&#8217;s longest-running &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; scams. The fraud, which spanned over two months from December 26, 2024, to March 3, 2025, involved scammers posing as police officials and exploiting the victim&#8217;s fear of legal repercussions. How the Rs 20 crore digital arrest scam unfolded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915018","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}