{"id":981571,"date":"2025-12-22T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981571"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:51:16","slug":"digital-loot-how-to-protect-your-hard-earned-money-in-a-rising-era-of-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/digital-loot-how-to-protect-your-hard-earned-money-in-a-rising-era-of-cyber-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital loot: How to protect your hard-earned money in a rising era of cyber fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber fraud has emerged as one of India\u2019s fastest-growing threats, affecting citizens across age groups and regions. For many, the experience is sudden, silent, and financially devastating.Consider the case of Abdul Hassan (name changed), a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher from Bokaro Steel City. A message claiming a courier delay prompted him to call a \u201ccustomer care\u201d number. Minutes later-after clicking a link, entering bank details, and sharing an OTP \u2014 INR85,000 of his pension savings disappeared. His story mirrors thousands of similar incidents across India\u2019s expanding digital landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber fraud has emerged as one of India\u2019s fastest-growing threats, affecting citizens across age groups and regions. For many, the experience is sudden, silent, and financially devastating.Consider the case of Abdul Hassan (name changed), a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher from Bokaro Steel City. A message claiming a courier delay prompted him to call a \u201ccustomer care\u201d number. Minutes later-after clicking a link, entering bank details, and sharing an OTP \u2014 INR85,000 of his pension savings disappeared. His story mirrors thousands of similar incidents across India\u2019s expanding digital landscape.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981571","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=981571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}