{"id":974670,"date":"2025-11-18T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974670"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:04:51","slug":"bengaluru-woman-loses-rs-31-83-crore-in-months-long-digital-arrest-scam-involving-fake-cbi-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/bengaluru-woman-loses-rs-31-83-crore-in-months-long-digital-arrest-scam-involving-fake-cbi-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru woman loses Rs 31.83 crore in months-long digital arrest scam involving fake CBI officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 57-year-old woman here allegedly lost about Rs 32 crore in a sophisticated &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; scam that lasted over six months, following which a case has been registered. <\/p>\n<p>Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters enforced a &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; 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>BENGALURU: A 57-year-old woman here allegedly lost about Rs 32 crore in a sophisticated &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; scam that lasted over six months, following which a case has been registered. Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters enforced a &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; 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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974670","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\/974670","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=974670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}