{"id":950628,"date":"2025-07-29T08:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950628"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:51:08","slug":"fake-e-commerce-websites-target-online-shoppers-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/29\/fake-e-commerce-websites-target-online-shoppers-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake e-commerce websites target online shoppers in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: With the rise in online shopping, especially during festive seasons, cybercriminals are exploiting unsuspecting customers through fake e-commerce websites that closely imitate legitimate portals. These fraudulent platforms lure users with flashy deals and deep discounts, aiming to steal money and sensitive personal information. <\/p>\n<p>A senior officer from a CEN (Cybercrime, Economic Offences and Narcotics) police station in Bengaluru told TNIE that two main types of scams are currently being reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: With the rise in online shopping, especially during festive seasons, cybercriminals are exploiting unsuspecting customers through fake e-commerce websites that closely imitate legitimate portals. These fraudulent platforms lure users with flashy deals and deep discounts, aiming to steal money and sensitive personal information. A senior officer from a CEN (Cybercrime, Economic Offences and Narcotics) police station in Bengaluru told TNIE that two main types of scams are currently being reported.<\/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-950628","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\/950628","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=950628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}