{"id":989833,"date":"2026-02-04T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989833"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:21:08","slug":"whatsapp-fraud-alert-delhi-man-loses-rs-4-lakh-in-traffic-challan-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/whatsapp-fraud-alert-delhi-man-loses-rs-4-lakh-in-traffic-challan-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp fraud alert: Delhi man loses Rs 4 lakh in traffic challan scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A man lost Rs 4 lakh after receiving a WhatsApp message claiming that a Rs 1,000 traffic challan was pending.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant said he received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number claiming to be from \u201cNextGen mParivahan\u201d. The message contained a link warning of a traffic challan of Rs 1,000 and appeared to be associated with the Ministry of Transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A man lost Rs 4 lakh after receiving a WhatsApp message claiming that a Rs 1,000 traffic challan was pending. The complainant said he received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number claiming to be from \u201cNextGen mParivahan\u201d. The message contained a link warning of a traffic challan of Rs 1,000 and appeared to be associated with the Ministry of Transport.<\/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":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989833","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=989833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}