{"id":528553,"date":"2022-10-11T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T04:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528553"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T07:44:08","slug":"your-electricity-will-be-disconnected-scammers-try-to-lure-unsuspecting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/your-electricity-will-be-disconnected-scammers-try-to-lure-unsuspecting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Your electricity will be disconnected\u2026\u2019: Scammers try to lure unsuspecting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SMS\/WhatsApp Electricity Scam: Many users have been receiving messages on WhatsApp and via SMS from unknown numbers which claim that the user\u2019s electricity, telephone or other connections will be disconnected unless they contact a certain number. \u201cI received the first SMS on September 30 and then a second message on October 2. My mother also received a similar message. We have a very high electricity bill so I thought that maybe it is right,\u201d Soumya Sengupta, a 38-year-old Kolkata-based businessman told indianexpress.com. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I checked the CESC [Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation] website where I usually pay the bill. But all the dues were paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMS\/WhatsApp Electricity Scam: Many users have been receiving messages on WhatsApp and via SMS from unknown numbers which claim that the user\u2019s electricity, telephone or other connections will be disconnected unless they contact a certain number. \u201cI received the first SMS on September 30 and then a second message on October 2. My mother also received a similar message. We have a very high electricity bill so I thought that maybe it is right,\u201d Soumya Sengupta, a 38-year-old Kolkata-based businessman told indianexpress.com. \u201cSo I checked the CESC [Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation] website where I usually pay the bill. But all [&hellip;]<\/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-528553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528553","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=528553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}