{"id":987092,"date":"2026-01-22T08:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987092"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:56:28","slug":"email-spoofing-fraud-police-recover-rs-2-16-crore-within-golden-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/email-spoofing-fraud-police-recover-rs-2-16-crore-within-golden-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Email spoofing fraud: Police recover Rs 2.16 crore within \u2018golden hour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Cyber Crime Police have recovered the entire Rs 2.16 crore within the \u2018golden hour\u2019 in an email spoofing fraud case, marking the first instance of a full recovery of the defrauded amount in a cybercrime case. The fraudster was operating from Nigeria, officials said, <\/p>\n<p>The police said the fraud occurred on November 4, 2025 when cyber criminals impersonated the official email ID of Keshava Group Pharmaceuticals and sent a fraudulent payment request to Dr Reddy\u2019s Laboratories Ltd, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company with an office on MG Road, Bengaluru, and a business partner of Keshava Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Cyber Crime Police have recovered the entire Rs 2.16 crore within the \u2018golden hour\u2019 in an email spoofing fraud case, marking the first instance of a full recovery of the defrauded amount in a cybercrime case. The fraudster was operating from Nigeria, officials said, The police said the fraud occurred on November 4, 2025 when cyber criminals impersonated the official email ID of Keshava Group Pharmaceuticals and sent a fraudulent payment request to Dr Reddy\u2019s Laboratories Ltd, a Hyderabad-based pharmaceutical company with an office on MG Road, Bengaluru, and a business partner of Keshava Group.<\/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-987092","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\/987092","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=987092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}