{"id":942364,"date":"2025-06-30T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942364"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:30:28","slug":"70-year-old-doctor-kept-under-digital-arrest-for-8-days-loses-rs-3-cr-to-cyber-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/70-year-old-doctor-kept-under-digital-arrest-for-8-days-loses-rs-3-cr-to-cyber-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old doctor kept under &#8216;digital arrest&#8217; for 8 days, loses Rs 3 cr to cyber criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old doctor was cheated by cyber criminals of Rs 3 crore and kept under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; for eight days after being accused of involvement in a non-existent money laundering scam, a Mumbai police official said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>In the month of May, the victim got a call from a person identifying himself as telecom department staffer Amit Kumar, who told her a SIM card had been bought with her personal details for use in criminal activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old doctor was cheated by cyber criminals of Rs 3 crore and kept under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; for eight days after being accused of involvement in a non-existent money laundering scam, a Mumbai police official said on Saturday. In the month of May, the victim got a call from a person identifying himself as telecom department staffer Amit Kumar, who told her a SIM card had been bought with her personal details for use in criminal activities.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942364","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=942364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}