{"id":984390,"date":"2026-01-09T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984390"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:02","slug":"sim-card-scam-aiding-cybercrimes-cbi-nabs-telecom-firms-area-sales-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/sim-card-scam-aiding-cybercrimes-cbi-nabs-telecom-firms-area-sales-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM card scam aiding cybercrimes: CBI nabs telecom firm\u2019s area sales manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an area sales manager of NCR\/Chandigarh region of a private telecom company from Delhi for his alleged role in the illegal bulk issuance of SIM cards that were used to facilitate organised cybercrimes, including phishing scams, officials said in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made under the investigating agency\u2019s ongoing Operation Chakra-V aimed at dismantling the technical and logistical backbone of organised cybercrime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an area sales manager of NCR\/Chandigarh region of a private telecom company from Delhi for his alleged role in the illegal bulk issuance of SIM cards that were used to facilitate organised cybercrimes, including phishing scams, officials said in a press release on Thursday. The arrest was made under the investigating agency\u2019s ongoing Operation Chakra-V aimed at dismantling the technical and logistical backbone of organised cybercrime.<\/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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984390","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=984390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}