{"id":938075,"date":"2025-06-12T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=938075"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:13:23","slug":"fraudsters-pose-as-cbi-officers-cji-dupe-ex-scientist-of-rs-1-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/12\/fraudsters-pose-as-cbi-officers-cji-dupe-ex-scientist-of-rs-1-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudsters pose as CBI officers, cji, dupe ex-scientist of Rs 1 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 73-year-old retired chief scientist and his wife were digitally \u201carrested\u201d and duped of Rs 1.34 crore by cybercriminals who impersonated law enforcement officials and created a mock Supreme Court scene to intimidate the couple. <\/p>\n<p>In his complaint, the scientist said he received a call on May 31, allegedly from the Department of Telecommunications. The caller claimed a criminal case had been registered against him with the Ashoka Nagar police in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 73-year-old retired chief scientist and his wife were digitally \u201carrested\u201d and duped of Rs 1.34 crore by cybercriminals who impersonated law enforcement officials and created a mock Supreme Court scene to intimidate the couple. In his complaint, the scientist said he received a call on May 31, allegedly from the Department of Telecommunications. The caller claimed a criminal case had been registered against him with the Ashoka Nagar police in Bengaluru.<\/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-938075","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\/938075","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=938075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}