{"id":976451,"date":"2025-11-25T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976451"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:06:46","slug":"mobile-users-may-face-liability-if-sim-cards-in-their-name-are-misused-warns-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/mobile-users-may-face-liability-if-sim-cards-in-their-name-are-misused-warns-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile users may face liability if SIM cards in their name are misused, warns DoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile subscribers could face legal consequences if a SIM card issued in their name is used for cyber fraud or any other illegal activity, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said in an official statement on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The DoT urged citizens to remain vigilant and refrain from using mobile devices that have tampered IMEI numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile subscribers could face legal consequences if a SIM card issued in their name is used for cyber fraud or any other illegal activity, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said in an official statement on Monday. The DoT urged citizens to remain vigilant and refrain from using mobile devices that have tampered IMEI numbers.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976451","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=976451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}