{"id":954088,"date":"2025-08-11T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954088"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:18:04","slug":"elderly-woman-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-loses-rs-3-09-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/elderly-woman-falls-prey-to-digital-arrest-loses-rs-3-09-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman falls prey to &#8216;digital arrest&#8217;, loses Rs 3.09 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: An elderly woman reportedly fell prey to the online scam of \u201cdigital arrest\u201d and lost over Rs 3.09 crore between January and July 2025 in the city. However, the incident has come to light now. <\/p>\n<p>In a complaint to CEN station, Leni Prabhu said that on January 15, 2025, she received a missed call from an unknown number. When she returned the call, a woman on the other end, claiming to be from the General Post Office, informed Leni that a parcel she had allegedly sent to China had been returned, while containing 150 grams of MDMA. The caller warned that the offence carried a prison term of more than 75 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mangaluru: An elderly woman reportedly fell prey to the online scam of \u201cdigital arrest\u201d and lost over Rs 3.09 crore between January and July 2025 in the city. However, the incident has come to light now. In a complaint to CEN station, Leni Prabhu said that on January 15, 2025, she received a missed call from an unknown number. When she returned the call, a woman on the other end, claiming to be from the General Post Office, informed Leni that a parcel she had allegedly sent to China had been returned, while containing 150 grams of MDMA. The caller [&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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954088","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\/954088","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=954088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}