{"id":987733,"date":"2026-01-26T09:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987733"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:33:37","slug":"online-safety-police-issue-fraud-alert-on-file-downloads-from-social-media-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/online-safety-police-issue-fraud-alert-on-file-downloads-from-social-media-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Online safety: Police issue fraud alert on file downloads from social media sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Saturday issued a public advisory on its X handle asking mobile users not to download files received from unknown numbers \u201con WhatsApp or other messaging platforms\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The advisory was issued within hours of Kolkata Police arresting a group of men who had allegedly been siphoning money from bank accounts by fraudulently gaining remote access to mobile phones from Maheshtala on the city\u2019s southern fringes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Saturday issued a public advisory on its X handle asking mobile users not to download files received from unknown numbers \u201con WhatsApp or other messaging platforms\u201d. The advisory was issued within hours of Kolkata Police arresting a group of men who had allegedly been siphoning money from bank accounts by fraudulently gaining remote access to mobile phones from Maheshtala on the city\u2019s southern fringes.<\/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-987733","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\/987733","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=987733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}