{"id":958217,"date":"2025-08-27T09:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958217"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:24:32","slug":"man-loses-rs-2-65l-in-fraud-linked-to-fine-rebate-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/man-loses-rs-2-65l-in-fraud-linked-to-fine-rebate-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Man loses Rs 2.65L in fraud linked to fine rebate in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: As the state government has announced a 50% rebate on pending traffic e-challan fines, cyber fraudsters are taking advantage of the situation by duping the public through APK file links claiming to help check and pay fines. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, a 50-year-old software engineer lost Rs 2.65 lakh after clicking on an APK file sent through WhatsApp, believing it to be a link to clear his traffic violation dues online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: As the state government has announced a 50% rebate on pending traffic e-challan fines, cyber fraudsters are taking advantage of the situation by duping the public through APK file links claiming to help check and pay fines. Recently, a 50-year-old software engineer lost Rs 2.65 lakh after clicking on an APK file sent through WhatsApp, believing it to be a link to clear his traffic violation dues online.<\/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-958217","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\/958217","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=958217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}