{"id":959578,"date":"2025-09-05T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959578"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:55:06","slug":"how-a-92-year-old-noida-man-lost-%e2%82%b91-02-crore-in-a-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/05\/how-a-92-year-old-noida-man-lost-%e2%82%b91-02-crore-in-a-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How a 92-year-old Noida man lost \u20b91.02 crore in a \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 92-year-old retired professor found himself trapped in a digital nightmare, as fraudsters posing as CBI officers placed him under a five-day \u201cdigital arrest,\u201d manipulating him into transferring \u20b91.02 crore, his life savings.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the elderly man, residing in Noida Sector 30, received a call on August 26 from someone claiming to be a telecom executive, which soon led to repeated WhatsApp messages accusing him of money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 92-year-old retired professor found himself trapped in a digital nightmare, as fraudsters posing as CBI officers placed him under a five-day \u201cdigital arrest,\u201d manipulating him into transferring \u20b91.02 crore, his life savings. Police said the elderly man, residing in Noida Sector 30, received a call on August 26 from someone claiming to be a telecom executive, which soon led to repeated WhatsApp messages accusing him of money laundering.<\/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-959578","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\/959578","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=959578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}