{"id":952669,"date":"2025-08-05T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952669"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:27:13","slug":"techie-dupes-cybercrime-victims-via-fake-legal-aid-firm-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/05\/techie-dupes-cybercrime-victims-via-fake-legal-aid-firm-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Techie dupes cybercrime victims via fake legal aid firm in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 37-year-old software engineer has been arrested by the CCB for creating a fake legal aid service and cheating cybercrime victims. The accused Thufail Ahmed is a resident of Kothanur and a native of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. <\/p>\n<p>According to the police, a victim from Ramamurthy Nagar had lost Rs 1.5 crore in a cyber fraud in February. While searching online for legal aid services, the victim was contacted by Ahmed, who posed as a representative of \u2018Quickmoto Legal Service\u2019 and collected Rs 12.5 lakh from the victim promising to recover the lost money through legal means, but duped her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 37-year-old software engineer has been arrested by the CCB for creating a fake legal aid service and cheating cybercrime victims. The accused Thufail Ahmed is a resident of Kothanur and a native of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu. According to the police, a victim from Ramamurthy Nagar had lost Rs 1.5 crore in a cyber fraud in February. While searching online for legal aid services, the victim was contacted by Ahmed, who posed as a representative of \u2018Quickmoto Legal Service\u2019 and collected Rs 12.5 lakh from the victim promising to recover the lost money through legal means, but duped [&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-952669","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\/952669","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=952669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}