{"id":965082,"date":"2025-09-29T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965082"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:42:55","slug":"krishnagiri-woman-loses-rs-5-lakh-in-apk-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/krishnagiri-woman-loses-rs-5-lakh-in-apk-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishnagiri woman loses Rs 5 lakh in &#8216;APK&#8217; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KRISHNAGIRI: A 43- year-old woman near Pochampalli lost Rs 5 lakh after she clicked on a fake Android Package Kit (APK) file sent by cyber fraudsters on WhatsApp. <\/p>\n<p>Police sources told TNIE that Mariyammal (name changed) received the fake APK file \u2014 &#8216;PM Kishan Apk&#8217; \u2014on Monday. Thinking it was an original APK file related to the scheme, she clicked on the link and lost Rs 5 lakh from her bank account in a single transaction within few days. She then complained with the Krishnagiri cybercrime police on Saturday, and a case was booked under BNS and the Information Technology Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRISHNAGIRI: A 43- year-old woman near Pochampalli lost Rs 5 lakh after she clicked on a fake Android Package Kit (APK) file sent by cyber fraudsters on WhatsApp. Police sources told TNIE that Mariyammal (name changed) received the fake APK file \u2014 &#8216;PM Kishan Apk&#8217; \u2014on Monday. Thinking it was an original APK file related to the scheme, she clicked on the link and lost Rs 5 lakh from her bank account in a single transaction within few days. She then complained with the Krishnagiri cybercrime police on Saturday, and a case was booked under BNS and the Information Technology [&hellip;]<\/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-965082","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\/965082","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=965082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}