{"id":954720,"date":"2025-08-13T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954720"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:56:47","slug":"bengaluru-techie-held-for-converting-international-calls-into-local-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/bengaluru-techie-held-for-converting-international-calls-into-local-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru techie held for converting international calls into local ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 35-year-old software engineer was arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) for allegedly converting international calls into local ones using a SIM box and facilitating cyber financial fraud. The racket was being operated from a data centre in Whitefield. <\/p>\n<p>The police have seized six SIM boxes, 133 SIM cards, 12 data storage servers, an Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange, a network router, and other equipment worth Rs 10 lakh. \u201cThere is information that similar operations are being carried out at 2-3 other places,\u201d the police added. Ahmed was taken into custody for seven days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 35-year-old software engineer was arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) for allegedly converting international calls into local ones using a SIM box and facilitating cyber financial fraud. The racket was being operated from a data centre in Whitefield. The police have seized six SIM boxes, 133 SIM cards, 12 data storage servers, an Internet Protocol Private Branch Exchange, a network router, and other equipment worth Rs 10 lakh. \u201cThere is information that similar operations are being carried out at 2-3 other places,\u201d the police added. Ahmed was taken into custody for seven days.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954720","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=954720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}