{"id":946341,"date":"2025-07-14T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T03:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946341"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:19:58","slug":"bengaluru-man-in-search-of-partner-online-loses-rs-44-lakh-to-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/bengaluru-man-in-search-of-partner-online-loses-rs-44-lakh-to-cyber-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru man in search of partner online loses Rs 44 lakh to cyber fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A man from western Bengaluru lost over Rs 44 lakh to a cyber fraud while looking for a partner online, police officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Sharan PS (name changed), 34, from Ullal, believed the person communicating with him was genuine. On May 5, while browsing a matrimonial website, he sent a request to a profile named Archana. <\/p>\n<p>Archana accepted the request and asked Sharan to move the conversation to WhatsApp. Believing she was a woman working in Germany, he shared his number and began chatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A man from western Bengaluru lost over Rs 44 lakh to a cyber fraud while looking for a partner online, police officials said. Sharan PS (name changed), 34, from Ullal, believed the person communicating with him was genuine. On May 5, while browsing a matrimonial website, he sent a request to a profile named Archana. Archana accepted the request and asked Sharan to move the conversation to WhatsApp. Believing she was a woman working in Germany, he shared his number and began chatting.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946341","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=946341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}