{"id":949160,"date":"2025-07-23T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949160"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:16:10","slug":"fake-pan-2-0-scam-alert-indian-government-warns-taxpayers-against-phishing-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/fake-pan-2-0-scam-alert-indian-government-warns-taxpayers-against-phishing-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake &#8216;PAN 2.0&#8217; Scam Alert: Indian Government warns taxpayers against phishing emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government has issued a serious warning to taxpayers about a widespread phishing campaign involving fake offers for upgraded \u201cPAN 2.0\u201d cards. According to an advisory by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check, fraudsters are sending deceptive emails to individuals, falsely claiming the launch of a new version of the Permanent Account Number (PAN) card with enhanced features such as QR codes.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the scam?<br \/>\nEmails with subject lines related to \u201cPAN 2.0 Cards\u201d are being sent from suspicious email IDs such as info@smt.plusoasis.com, urging recipients to click on a link to download their so-called \u201ce-PAN\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government has issued a serious warning to taxpayers about a widespread phishing campaign involving fake offers for upgraded \u201cPAN 2.0\u201d cards. According to an advisory by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Fact Check, fraudsters are sending deceptive emails to individuals, falsely claiming the launch of a new version of the Permanent Account Number (PAN) card with enhanced features such as QR codes. What\u2019s the scam? Emails with subject lines related to \u201cPAN 2.0 Cards\u201d are being sent from suspicious email IDs such as info@smt.plusoasis.com, urging recipients to click on a link to download their so-called \u201ce-PAN\u201d.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949160","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=949160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}