{"id":958352,"date":"2025-08-28T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958352"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:04:09","slug":"retd-merchant-navy-officer-100-yr-old-dad-lose-%e2%82%b91-29-cr-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/retd-merchant-navy-officer-100-yr-old-dad-lose-%e2%82%b91-29-cr-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Retd merchant navy officer, 100-yr-old dad lose \u20b91.29 cr in digital arrest scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW A 70-year-old retired merchant navy officer and his 100-year-old father fell victim to a digital arrest scam, losing a whopping \u20b91.29 crore to fraudsters posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials.<\/p>\n<p>The incident unfolded in Lucknow\u2019s Sarojini Nagar, where Surya Pal Singh, a former merchant navy officer, lives with his centenarian father Hardev Singh. According to the FIR, the ordeal began on August 20 when the complainant\u2019s father Hardev Singh received a call from an unknown number wherein the caller introduced himself as Alok Singh from the \u2018CBI\u2019 and said that an arrest warrant had been issued against him for money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCKNOW A 70-year-old retired merchant navy officer and his 100-year-old father fell victim to a digital arrest scam, losing a whopping \u20b91.29 crore to fraudsters posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials. The incident unfolded in Lucknow\u2019s Sarojini Nagar, where Surya Pal Singh, a former merchant navy officer, lives with his centenarian father Hardev Singh. According to the FIR, the ordeal began on August 20 when the complainant\u2019s father Hardev Singh received a call from an unknown number wherein the caller introduced himself as Alok Singh from the \u2018CBI\u2019 and said that an arrest warrant had been issued against [&hellip;]<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958352","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=958352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}