{"id":983184,"date":"2026-01-03T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983184"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:07:17","slug":"retired-officer-duped-out-of-%e2%82%b990-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam-5-ways-to-stay-safe-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/retired-officer-duped-out-of-%e2%82%b990-lakh-in-digital-arrest-scam-5-ways-to-stay-safe-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired officer duped out of \u20b990 lakh in digital arrest scam: 5 ways to stay safe online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report by India Today, a 73-year-old retired Finance Department officer from Lucknow was trapped in an elaborate cyber fraud. In the scam, fraudsters posed as officials from the Mumbai Cyber Crime Cell.<\/p>\n<p>How was the scam carried out?<br \/>\nThe victim, Amarjeet Singh, was kept under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 for nearly 25 days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report by India Today, a 73-year-old retired Finance Department officer from Lucknow was trapped in an elaborate cyber fraud. In the scam, fraudsters posed as officials from the Mumbai Cyber Crime Cell. How was the scam carried out? The victim, Amarjeet Singh, was kept under \u2018digital arrest\u2019 for nearly 25 days.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983184","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=983184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}