{"id":522055,"date":"2022-09-15T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=522055"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T05:33:09","slug":"mumbai-consumers-receive-fake-sms-for-power-disconnection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-consumers-receive-fake-sms-for-power-disconnection\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: Consumers receive fake SMS for power disconnection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The BEST has received several complaints from its consumers about fake SMS for power disconnections and online frauds, and the messages have come from nine different numbers, said a spokesperson on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been flooded with calls from consumers who receive fake messages threatening them with power disconnection if they did not pay the bill dues online. This is a fraudulent message, aimed at fleecing our consumers. A few of them have lost money and we have directed them to the cyber crime cell,&#8221; the spokesperson Manoj Varade said.<\/p>\n<p>The police are yet to zero in on the culprit who keeps changing the numbers each time, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The BEST has received several complaints from its consumers about fake SMS for power disconnections and online frauds, and the messages have come from nine different numbers, said a spokesperson on Wednesday. &#8220;We have been flooded with calls from consumers who receive fake messages threatening them with power disconnection if they did not pay the bill dues online. This is a fraudulent message, aimed at fleecing our consumers. A few of them have lost money and we have directed them to the cyber crime cell,&#8221; the spokesperson Manoj Varade said. The police are yet to zero in on the [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522055","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=522055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}