{"id":994116,"date":"2026-02-20T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994116"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:00:51","slug":"two-senior-citizens-duped-of-%e2%82%b93-25-crore-in-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/20\/two-senior-citizens-duped-of-%e2%82%b93-25-crore-in-cyber-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Two senior citizens duped of \u20b93.25 crore in cyber fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pune: In two separate cases of cyber fraud, elderly citizens were cheated of over \u20b93.25 crore after fraudsters allegedly posed as officials and threatened them with arrest in fabricated money laundering cases. The cases were lodged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the first case, a 70-year-old resident of Erandwane lodged a complaint with the cyber police, stating that he was duped after he received a call from a person claiming to be \u201cRahul Roy\u201d from the \u201cPersonal Data Protection of India, Andheri West\u201d between January 13 and February 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune: In two separate cases of cyber fraud, elderly citizens were cheated of over \u20b93.25 crore after fraudsters allegedly posed as officials and threatened them with arrest in fabricated money laundering cases. The cases were lodged on Wednesday. In the first case, a 70-year-old resident of Erandwane lodged a complaint with the cyber police, stating that he was duped after he received a call from a person claiming to be \u201cRahul Roy\u201d from the \u201cPersonal Data Protection of India, Andheri West\u201d between January 13 and February 4.<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994116","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=994116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}