{"id":987094,"date":"2026-01-22T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987094"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:07:49","slug":"new-town-man-loses-%e2%82%b93-26-crore-to-digital-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/new-town-man-loses-%e2%82%b93-26-crore-to-digital-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"New Town man loses \u20b93.26 crore to digital arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of New Town has been cheated out of \u20b93.26 crore after being trapped through a phone call. A group of fraudsters threatened him with a fake arrest warrant posing as officers from Mumbai Police, in yet another digital arrest fraud in the city. <\/p>\n<p>Malay Basu Ray, a resident of New Town, had received a call on December 16 where the caller introduced himself as an officer of the Mumbai crime branch and informed Ray that a SIM card issued in his name had been reported to the police 24 times for alleged harassment, resulting in an FIR against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resident of New Town has been cheated out of \u20b93.26 crore after being trapped through a phone call. A group of fraudsters threatened him with a fake arrest warrant posing as officers from Mumbai Police, in yet another digital arrest fraud in the city. Malay Basu Ray, a resident of New Town, had received a call on December 16 where the caller introduced himself as an officer of the Mumbai crime branch and informed Ray that a SIM card issued in his name had been reported to the police 24 times for alleged harassment, resulting in an FIR against [&hellip;]<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987094","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=987094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}