{"id":974659,"date":"2025-11-18T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974659"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:34:35","slug":"had-to-report-over-skype-bengaluru-software-engineer-loses-nearly-rs-32-crore-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/had-to-report-over-skype-bengaluru-software-engineer-loses-nearly-rs-32-crore-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Had to report over Skype\u2019: Bengaluru software engineer loses nearly Rs 32 crore in \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year-old woman here allegedly lost about Rs 32 crore in a sophisticated \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scam that lasted over six months, following which a case has been registered. <\/p>\n<p>Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters enforced a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d by holding her under constant Skype surveillance. They used threats of arrest to coerce her into sharing all financial details and to make 187 bank transfers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year-old woman here allegedly lost about Rs 32 crore in a sophisticated \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scam that lasted over six months, following which a case has been registered. Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters enforced a \u201cdigital arrest\u201d by holding her under constant Skype surveillance. They used threats of arrest to coerce her into sharing all financial details and to make 187 bank transfers.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974659","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=974659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}