{"id":979773,"date":"2025-12-11T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979773"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:13:35","slug":"81-year-old-man-from-aluva-loses-rs-1-2-crore-in-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/81-year-old-man-from-aluva-loses-rs-1-2-crore-in-online-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"81-year-old man from Aluva loses Rs 1.2 crore in online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: An 81-year-old from Aluva ended up losing nearly `1.20 crore in an online fraud in which scammers allegedly threatened him with a forged Supreme Court notice and linked him to a human trafficking racket. <\/p>\n<p>As per the complaint lodged with the Ernakulam Rural police, the fraudster identifying himself as \u2018Ranjith\u2019 and posing as a legal advisor with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India first contacted the victim on WhatsApp and told him that his mobile number was linked to a sexual abuse case registered at the Bengaluru Gandhi Nagar police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: An 81-year-old from Aluva ended up losing nearly `1.20 crore in an online fraud in which scammers allegedly threatened him with a forged Supreme Court notice and linked him to a human trafficking racket. As per the complaint lodged with the Ernakulam Rural police, the fraudster identifying himself as \u2018Ranjith\u2019 and posing as a legal advisor with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India first contacted the victim on WhatsApp and told him that his mobile number was linked to a sexual abuse case registered at the Bengaluru Gandhi Nagar police station.<\/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-979773","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\/979773","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=979773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}