{"id":954090,"date":"2025-08-11T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954090"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:18:48","slug":"digital-arrest-bengaluru-techie-loses-rs-34-lakh-to-cyberfraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/11\/digital-arrest-bengaluru-techie-loses-rs-34-lakh-to-cyberfraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest: Bengaluru techie loses Rs 34 lakh to cyberfraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A Bengaluru techie lost over Rs 34 lakh to cybercriminals who held him under \u201cdigital arrest\u201d for nearly 20 days, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The East CEN police have registered an FIR and launched a probe.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that Somashekar R (name changed), a software engineer from Babusapalya, received a call on July 5 from men claiming to be from the Colaba police station, Mumbai. They alleged a phone number in his name was being used to send harassing messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: A Bengaluru techie lost over Rs 34 lakh to cybercriminals who held him under \u201cdigital arrest\u201d for nearly 20 days, the police said. The East CEN police have registered an FIR and launched a probe. The police said that Somashekar R (name changed), a software engineer from Babusapalya, received a call on July 5 from men claiming to be from the Colaba police station, Mumbai. They alleged a phone number in his name was being used to send harassing messages.<\/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-954090","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\/954090","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=954090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}