{"id":506138,"date":"2022-07-16T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T05:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=506138"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T07:09:49","slug":"gujarat-discoms-warn-consumers-against-rampant-fake-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gujarat-discoms-warn-consumers-against-rampant-fake-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat discoms warn customers against fake disconnection messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning customers against fake SMSes or WhatsApp messages about electricity disconnection, electricity distribution companies of Gujarat such as Torrent Power Friday said both customers and the company\u2019s own employees have been receiving fake messages from fraudsters and miscreants.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Torrent Power said, \u201cOver the past few months, there have been an increasing number of reports of fake SMSes and or WhatsApp messages being sent to consumers across the country by fraudsters or miscreants, claiming that the customer\u2019s power connection would be disconnected at 09:30 or 10.30 PM, as the previous month bill was not updated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning customers against fake SMSes or WhatsApp messages about electricity disconnection, electricity distribution companies of Gujarat such as Torrent Power Friday said both customers and the company\u2019s own employees have been receiving fake messages from fraudsters and miscreants. In an official statement, Torrent Power said, \u201cOver the past few months, there have been an increasing number of reports of fake SMSes and or WhatsApp messages being sent to consumers across the country by fraudsters or miscreants, claiming that the customer\u2019s power connection would be disconnected at 09:30 or 10.30 PM, as the previous month bill was not updated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506138","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}