{"id":989995,"date":"2026-02-05T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989995"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:31:27","slug":"cyber-gang-posing-as-mumbai-crime-branch-digitally-arrests-nri-in-australia-siphons-off-rs-48-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/cyber-gang-posing-as-mumbai-crime-branch-digitally-arrests-nri-in-australia-siphons-off-rs-48-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber gang posing as Mumbai Crime Branch \u2018digitally arrests\u2019 NRI in Australia, siphons off Rs 48 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: A cyber fraud gang impersonating Mumbai Crime Branch officers digitally arrested an NRI youth in Australia, kept him under virtual surveillance for a month, and siphoned off Rs 48 lakh from his bank accounts in Australia and Ahmedabad. <\/p>\n<p>Cybercrime has taken a darker and more aggressive form, with its latest victim being an Indian youth settled in Australia. The victim\u2019s family resides in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD: A cyber fraud gang impersonating Mumbai Crime Branch officers digitally arrested an NRI youth in Australia, kept him under virtual surveillance for a month, and siphoned off Rs 48 lakh from his bank accounts in Australia and Ahmedabad. Cybercrime has taken a darker and more aggressive form, with its latest victim being an Indian youth settled in Australia. The victim\u2019s family resides in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.<\/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-989995","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\/989995","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=989995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}