{"id":960551,"date":"2025-09-10T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=960551"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:41:31","slug":"former-karnataka-mla-loses-%e2%82%b931-lakh-in-elaborate-digital-arrest-scam-disguised-as-cbi-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/10\/former-karnataka-mla-loses-%e2%82%b931-lakh-in-elaborate-digital-arrest-scam-disguised-as-cbi-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Karnataka MLA loses \u20b931 lakh in elaborate \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam disguised as CBI probe: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former MLA from Aurad constituency in Karnataka\u2019s Bidar district has fallen prey to a sophisticated scam known as a &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; &#8211; where scammers impersonate law enforcement officers and trick victims using fake legal proceedings over video calls.<\/p>\n<p>The victim lost \u20b931 lakh between August 12 and 19 after being manipulated into believing he was under investigation by central agencies like the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), said a report by The Times of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former MLA from Aurad constituency in Karnataka\u2019s Bidar district has fallen prey to a sophisticated scam known as a &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; &#8211; where scammers impersonate law enforcement officers and trick victims using fake legal proceedings over video calls. The victim lost \u20b931 lakh between August 12 and 19 after being manipulated into believing he was under investigation by central agencies like the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), said a report by The Times of India.<\/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-960551","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\/960551","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=960551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}