{"id":920017,"date":"2025-04-07T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=920017"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:36:27","slug":"cyber-criminals-attempt-rs-8l-fraud-from-minister-vikramadityas-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/07\/cyber-criminals-attempt-rs-8l-fraud-from-minister-vikramadityas-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Criminals Attempt Rs 8L Fraud from Minister Vikramaditya\u2019s Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could have been a high-profile digital heist, cyber fraudsters in Shimla tried to pull a fast one \u2014 quite literally \u2014 by attempting to transfer nearly Rs eight lakh from the bank account of Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Public Works Minister Vikramaditya Singh. Masquerading as top state secretariat officials, the scammers made a bold call to the UCO Bank\u2019s Vidhan Sabha branch, banking on panic and urgency to execute a fake RTGS transaction. But what they didn\u2019t count on was a bank manager who had sharper instincts than their script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could have been a high-profile digital heist, cyber fraudsters in Shimla tried to pull a fast one \u2014 quite literally \u2014 by attempting to transfer nearly Rs eight lakh from the bank account of Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Public Works Minister Vikramaditya Singh. Masquerading as top state secretariat officials, the scammers made a bold call to the UCO Bank\u2019s Vidhan Sabha branch, banking on panic and urgency to execute a fake RTGS transaction. But what they didn\u2019t count on was a bank manager who had sharper instincts than their script.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920017","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=920017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}