{"id":963107,"date":"2025-09-20T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963107"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:12:45","slug":"fake-cops-false-cases-man-conned-of-rs-1-38-crore-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/fake-cops-false-cases-man-conned-of-rs-1-38-crore-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake cops, false cases: Man conned of Rs 1.38 crore in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 65-year-old private employee from the city was duped of Rs 1.38 crore after falling victim to a digital arrest fraud. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, on September 11, the victim received a call from someone posing as a Telephone Department official, who then transferred the call to \u2018Investigation Officer Madan Kumar.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The caller claimed the victim\u2019s Aadhaar number was misused and a criminal case was filed against him in Bangalore. The victim was asked to visit Gandhimagar police station, and when he mentioned his age and health issues, the caller arranged a video call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 65-year-old private employee from the city was duped of Rs 1.38 crore after falling victim to a digital arrest fraud. According to police, on September 11, the victim received a call from someone posing as a Telephone Department official, who then transferred the call to \u2018Investigation Officer Madan Kumar.\u2019 The caller claimed the victim\u2019s Aadhaar number was misused and a criminal case was filed against him in Bangalore. The victim was asked to visit Gandhimagar police station, and when he mentioned his age and health issues, the caller arranged a video call.<\/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-963107","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\/963107","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=963107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}