{"id":931808,"date":"2025-05-19T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931808"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:59:58","slug":"indian-sims-used-by-pakistan-fraud-gangs-in-whatsapp-scams-seven-arrested-in-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/19\/indian-sims-used-by-pakistan-fraud-gangs-in-whatsapp-scams-seven-arrested-in-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian SIMs used by Pakistan fraud gangs in WhatsApp scams, seven arrested in crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people were arrested as the Assam Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a racket that provided mobile phone connections to cybercriminals, including Pakistanis, for opening WhatsApp accounts to dupe people. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, DGP Harmeet Singh said &#8216;Operation Ghost SIM&#8217; was launched based on information provided by military intelligence about a racket operating with bases in Assam, Rajasthan and Telangana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people were arrested as the Assam Police on Saturday claimed to have busted a racket that provided mobile phone connections to cybercriminals, including Pakistanis, for opening WhatsApp accounts to dupe people. Addressing a press conference, DGP Harmeet Singh said &#8216;Operation Ghost SIM&#8217; was launched based on information provided by military intelligence about a racket operating with bases in Assam, Rajasthan and Telangana.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931808","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=931808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}