{"id":949097,"date":"2025-07-23T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949097"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:25:54","slug":"fake-pan-2-0-scam-alert-government-warns-citizens-against-phishing-emails-what-you-must-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/fake-pan-2-0-scam-alert-government-warns-citizens-against-phishing-emails-what-you-must-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake \u2018PAN 2.0\u2019 scam alert: Government warns citizens against phishing emails \u2014 What you must know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India has issued a strong warning against a new phishing scam circulating via email that falsely promises users an upgraded \u201cPAN 2.0\u201d card. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Press Information Bureau\u2019s (PIB) Fact Check unit and the Income Tax Department, these emails are entirely fake and designed to steal personal and financial information from unsuspecting citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India has issued a strong warning against a new phishing scam circulating via email that falsely promises users an upgraded \u201cPAN 2.0\u201d card. According to the Press Information Bureau\u2019s (PIB) Fact Check unit and the Income Tax Department, these emails are entirely fake and designed to steal personal and financial information from unsuspecting citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949097","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}