{"id":980033,"date":"2025-12-12T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980033"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:55:30","slug":"senior-citizen-loses-rs-45-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/12\/senior-citizen-loses-rs-45-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior citizen loses Rs 45 lakh in digital arrest scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A 75-year-old retired LIC advisor from Saroor Nagar lost Rs 45 lakh after cyber criminals posing as law-enforcement officials, placed him under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and coerced him into transferring funds on the pretext of money-laundering verification.<\/p>\n<p>He received calls on Nov 30 from two phone numbers, initially posing as telecom-security staff and later as Enforcement Directorate investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A 75-year-old retired LIC advisor from Saroor Nagar lost Rs 45 lakh after cyber criminals posing as law-enforcement officials, placed him under &#8220;digital arrest&#8221; and coerced him into transferring funds on the pretext of money-laundering verification. He received calls on Nov 30 from two phone numbers, initially posing as telecom-security staff and later as Enforcement Directorate investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980033","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}