{"id":972968,"date":"2025-11-10T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972968"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:50:11","slug":"victim-of-digital-arrest-man-sells-flat-to-pay-%e2%82%b975l-to-cyber-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/victim-of-digital-arrest-man-sells-flat-to-pay-%e2%82%b975l-to-cyber-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of \u2018digital arrest\u2019, man sells flat to pay \u20b975L to cyber fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A 65-year-old was cheated of \u20b975.5 lakh by cyber frauds posing as Delhi police, who claimed that he had been involved in a money laundering case where \u20b92.83 crore illicit money was transferred to an account in his name.<\/p>\n<p>The frauds placed the man under a \u2018digital arrest\u2019 and coerced him into paying them by breaking his fixed deposits, cashing in money from investments in shares, and even selling a flat in Borivli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A 65-year-old was cheated of \u20b975.5 lakh by cyber frauds posing as Delhi police, who claimed that he had been involved in a money laundering case where \u20b92.83 crore illicit money was transferred to an account in his name. The frauds placed the man under a \u2018digital arrest\u2019 and coerced him into paying them by breaking his fixed deposits, cashing in money from investments in shares, and even selling a flat in Borivli.<\/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-972968","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\/972968","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=972968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}