{"id":956817,"date":"2025-08-22T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956817"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:59:03","slug":"contractor-gets-mobile-with-pre-installed-apps-loses-rs-77l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/22\/contractor-gets-mobile-with-pre-installed-apps-loses-rs-77l\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor gets mobile with pre-installed apps, loses Rs 77L"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters have adopted a new modus operandi (MO) to dupe victims. Posing as representatives of banks offering credit cards with limits up to 50 lakh, they send mobile handsets pre-installed with SMS forwarding apps to victims, convincing them to install their SIM for DoT verification. A contractor from Madhapur lost 77 lakh to the tricksters through the new MO and approached police.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the 44-year-old private contractor from Madhapur received a call from a fraudster offering Citibank Prestige Credit Card with a limit of 50 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: Cyber fraudsters have adopted a new modus operandi (MO) to dupe victims. Posing as representatives of banks offering credit cards with limits up to 50 lakh, they send mobile handsets pre-installed with SMS forwarding apps to victims, convincing them to install their SIM for DoT verification. A contractor from Madhapur lost 77 lakh to the tricksters through the new MO and approached police. A few days ago, the 44-year-old private contractor from Madhapur received a call from a fraudster offering Citibank Prestige Credit Card with a limit of 50 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956817","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}