{"id":961809,"date":"2025-09-15T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961809"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:27:41","slug":"elderly-man-duped-of-rs-3-72-cr-in-virtual-arrest-scam-in-keralas-kollam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/15\/elderly-man-duped-of-rs-3-72-cr-in-virtual-arrest-scam-in-keralas-kollam\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man duped of Rs 3.72 cr in &#8216;virtual arrest&#8217; scam in Kerala&#8217;s Kollam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police on Saturday said that it has launched an investigation into the loss of Rs 3.72 crore by an elderly man in a &#8216;virtual arrest&#8217; cyber fraud case in this south Kerala district. <\/p>\n<p>The Kollam City Cyber Police registered a case on Tuesday based on the complaint of a 79-year-old resident of Padanayarkulangara here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Virtual arrest&#8217; is a cyber scam in which fraudsters impersonate police or enforcement agency officials and threaten victims through WhatsApp video calls, claiming they are booked in criminal cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police on Saturday said that it has launched an investigation into the loss of Rs 3.72 crore by an elderly man in a &#8216;virtual arrest&#8217; cyber fraud case in this south Kerala district. The Kollam City Cyber Police registered a case on Tuesday based on the complaint of a 79-year-old resident of Padanayarkulangara here. &#8216;Virtual arrest&#8217; is a cyber scam in which fraudsters impersonate police or enforcement agency officials and threaten victims through WhatsApp video calls, claiming they are booked in criminal cases.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961809","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=961809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}