{"id":946283,"date":"2025-07-14T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946283"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:43:25","slug":"kerala-man-loses-rs-4-lakh-in-fake-banking-app-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/kerala-man-loses-rs-4-lakh-in-fake-banking-app-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala man loses Rs 4 lakh in fake banking app fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The police have launched an investigation into the incident in which fraudsters siphoned off Rs 4 lakh from a Kozhikode native using a fake mobile banking app. <\/p>\n<p>The officials said the stolen money was part of a loan that the victim, who resides in Nedumbassery and works in a company in Angamaly, had withdrawn from his Provident Fund (PF) for his wife\u2019s delivery and the construction of their house. As per the police, the victim received a text message, claiming to have been sent from his bank, with a link to install an APK file. The victim, believing it to be the bank\u2019s official platform, entered his banking credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: The police have launched an investigation into the incident in which fraudsters siphoned off Rs 4 lakh from a Kozhikode native using a fake mobile banking app. The officials said the stolen money was part of a loan that the victim, who resides in Nedumbassery and works in a company in Angamaly, had withdrawn from his Provident Fund (PF) for his wife\u2019s delivery and the construction of their house. As per the police, the victim received a text message, claiming to have been sent from his bank, with a link to install an APK file. The victim, believing it [&hellip;]<\/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-946283","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\/946283","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=946283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}