{"id":967686,"date":"2025-10-15T08:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967686"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:17:35","slug":"inside-indias-scariest-scam-and-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/15\/inside-indias-scariest-scam-and-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside India\u2019s scariest scam &#8212; and how to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot and humid August morning last year, Biren Yadav was alone at his home in Gurugram, a New Delhi suburb, when his phone rang. The call was from a woman claiming to represent the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The caller seemed to know everything about Yadav, a 77-year-old former Indian Air Force officer. She read out his address, national ID and tax account number \u2014 all correctly. \u201cOne of your phones is transmitting antinational messages,\u201d said the caller. \u201cUnless the cyberpolice clears your name, we have to freeze all your numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a hot and humid August morning last year, Biren Yadav was alone at his home in Gurugram, a New Delhi suburb, when his phone rang. The call was from a woman claiming to represent the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The caller seemed to know everything about Yadav, a 77-year-old former Indian Air Force officer. She read out his address, national ID and tax account number \u2014 all correctly. \u201cOne of your phones is transmitting antinational messages,\u201d said the caller. \u201cUnless the cyberpolice clears your name, we have to freeze all your numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967686","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}