{"id":979750,"date":"2025-12-11T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979750"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:15:52","slug":"digital-arrest-two-senior-citizens-lose-rs-1-14-crore-in-separate-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/digital-arrest-two-senior-citizens-lose-rs-1-14-crore-in-separate-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital arrest: Two senior citizens lose Rs 1.14 crore in separate cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Two elderly residents of the city were duped of more than Rs 1.14 crore after cyber fraudsters, posing as law enforcement officials, trapped them in \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scams.<\/p>\n<p>In the first case, an 81-year-old retired employee lost Rs 60.2 lakh after fraudsters falsely accused him of links with terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n<p>On December 3, he received a call from a man identifying himself as Raj Sharma from the \u201cData Protection Board of India\u201d, who claimed the victim\u2019s credentials were linked to the Popular Front of India and international terror groups, including ISIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Two elderly residents of the city were duped of more than Rs 1.14 crore after cyber fraudsters, posing as law enforcement officials, trapped them in \u201cdigital arrest\u201d scams. In the first case, an 81-year-old retired employee lost Rs 60.2 lakh after fraudsters falsely accused him of links with terrorist organisations. On December 3, he received a call from a man identifying himself as Raj Sharma from the \u201cData Protection Board of India\u201d, who claimed the victim\u2019s credentials were linked to the Popular Front of India and international terror groups, including ISIS.<\/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-979750","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\/979750","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=979750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}