{"id":931162,"date":"2025-05-16T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T02:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931162"},"modified":"2025-05-16T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T02:30:49","slug":"hyderabad-teen-escapes-cyber-slavery-in-laos-exposes-organised-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/16\/hyderabad-teen-escapes-cyber-slavery-in-laos-exposes-organised-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad teen escapes cyber slavery in Laos, exposes organised fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A chilling account of cyber slavery and online fraud has come to light after a 19-year-old from Hyderabad escaped captivity in Laos and exposed an international racket targeting Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in the United States. The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) is now investigating what appears to be a sophisticated sextortion and cryptocurrency scam operated by Chinese nationals under the guise of call centre jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A chilling account of cyber slavery and online fraud has come to light after a 19-year-old from Hyderabad escaped captivity in Laos and exposed an international racket targeting Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) in the United States. The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) is now investigating what appears to be a sophisticated sextortion and cryptocurrency scam operated by Chinese nationals under the guise of call centre jobs.<\/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-931162","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\/931162","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=931162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}