{"id":485518,"date":"2022-04-20T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485518"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:50:20","slug":"kolkata-police-warn-against-fake-power-supply-disconnection-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kolkata-police-warn-against-fake-power-supply-disconnection-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata police warn against fake power supply disconnection messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city police on Tuesday issued an alert about fraudsters who have found a new way to dupe people \u2014 by sending text messages saying their power supply would be snapped and asking them to call a member to settle the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not respond to such fabricated messages. Please report all such instances at our Cyber police station WhatsApp number 8100796519,\u201d read a message posted by Kolkata police on their Facebook page and Twitter handle Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they had received several such cases where people have received text messages saying: \u201cDear customer your electricity power will be disconnected tonight at 10.30pm from electricity office because your previous month bill was not updated. Please immediately contact with our electricity officer 916xxxx962.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city police on Tuesday issued an alert about fraudsters who have found a new way to dupe people \u2014 by sending text messages saying their power supply would be snapped and asking them to call a member to settle the matter. \u201cDo not respond to such fabricated messages. Please report all such instances at our Cyber police station WhatsApp number 8100796519,\u201d read a message posted by Kolkata police on their Facebook page and Twitter handle Tuesday. The police said they had received several such cases where people have received text messages saying: \u201cDear customer your electricity power will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}