{"id":983382,"date":"2026-01-05T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983382"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:03:24","slug":"hyderabad-octogenarian-loses-rs-7-12-crore-in-digital-arrest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/05\/hyderabad-octogenarian-loses-rs-7-12-crore-in-digital-arrest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad octogenarian loses Rs 7.12 crore in \u2018digital arrest\u2019 scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An 81-year-old retired businessman from Somajiguda lost Rs 7.12 crore after falling victim to a \u2018digital arrest\u2019 fraud, in which scammers falsely accused him of involvement in a drug trafficking racket and extorted money in the name of verification. <\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, the victim received a WhatsApp call on October 27 from a person identifying himself as Sunil Sharma from Blue Dart Customer Care. The caller claimed that a parcel sent by the victim from Mumbai to Bangkok contained a laptop, five passports, 200 grams of MDMA and other items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: An 81-year-old retired businessman from Somajiguda lost Rs 7.12 crore after falling victim to a \u2018digital arrest\u2019 fraud, in which scammers falsely accused him of involvement in a drug trafficking racket and extorted money in the name of verification. According to the complaint, the victim received a WhatsApp call on October 27 from a person identifying himself as Sunil Sharma from Blue Dart Customer Care. The caller claimed that a parcel sent by the victim from Mumbai to Bangkok contained a laptop, five passports, 200 grams of MDMA and other items.<\/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-983382","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\/983382","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=983382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}