{"id":978065,"date":"2025-12-03T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978065"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:45:09","slug":"new-wave-of-cyber-crime-arises-in-kerala-as-fraudsters-use-fake-whatsapp-profiles-of-district-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/new-wave-of-cyber-crime-arises-in-kerala-as-fraudsters-use-fake-whatsapp-profiles-of-district-collectors\/","title":{"rendered":"New wave of cyber crime arises in Kerala as fraudsters use fake WhatsApp profiles of district collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOZHIKODE: A new cyber trick is affecting the state\u2019s district administrations, with fraudsters now impersonating district collectors on WhatsApp to fool subordinate officers into transferring money. What starts as a routine query about work updates quickly transforms into a cleverly crafted financial request, and multiple top officials have already found their identities misused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOZHIKODE: A new cyber trick is affecting the state\u2019s district administrations, with fraudsters now impersonating district collectors on WhatsApp to fool subordinate officers into transferring money. What starts as a routine query about work updates quickly transforms into a cleverly crafted financial request, and multiple top officials have already found their identities misused.<\/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-978065","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\/978065","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=978065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}