{"id":974678,"date":"2025-11-18T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974678"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:01:07","slug":"mha-issues-advisory-against-online-scams-flags-fake-social-media-ads-as-key-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/mha-issues-advisory-against-online-scams-flags-fake-social-media-ads-as-key-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"MHA issues advisory against online scams, flags fake social media ads as key concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an advisory requesting people to beware of fraudulent investment schemes, fake job offers and other online scams.<\/p>\n<p>The I4C under the MHA stated in the advisory that, in most of such advertisements, \u201cscamsters use deepfake videos to misguide the users leading to devastating financial losses\u201d for victims across the country who could be deceived by \u201cconvincing visuals, false claims and professional-looking online pages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an advisory requesting people to beware of fraudulent investment schemes, fake job offers and other online scams. The I4C under the MHA stated in the advisory that, in most of such advertisements, \u201cscamsters use deepfake videos to misguide the users leading to devastating financial losses\u201d for victims across the country who could be deceived by \u201cconvincing visuals, false claims and professional-looking online pages.\u201d<\/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-974678","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\/974678","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=974678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}