{"id":972972,"date":"2025-11-10T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972972"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:53:44","slug":"how-retiree-in-bengaluru-lost-all-savings-to-fake-judge-in-shocking-virtual-courtroom-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/10\/how-retiree-in-bengaluru-lost-all-savings-to-fake-judge-in-shocking-virtual-courtroom-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"How retiree in Bengaluru lost all savings to fake &#8216;judge&#8217; in shocking virtual courtroom scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old retired private employee in Bengaluru was defrauded of \u20b933.7 lakh after cybercriminals created a fake virtual courtroom. The fraudsters even posed as a magistrate to make the scam appear legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as Bhaskar Rao (name changed), said he was completely convinced by the digital set-up and did not suspect anything until he discussed the incident with his family after the video call ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old retired private employee in Bengaluru was defrauded of \u20b933.7 lakh after cybercriminals created a fake virtual courtroom. The fraudsters even posed as a magistrate to make the scam appear legitimate. The victim, identified as Bhaskar Rao (name changed), said he was completely convinced by the digital set-up and did not suspect anything until he discussed the incident with his family after the video call ended.<\/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-972972","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\/972972","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=972972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}