{"id":551688,"date":"2023-02-01T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=551688"},"modified":"2023-02-01T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:21:06","slug":"foreign-national-duped-of-rs-47000-in-electricity-bill-fraud-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/foreign-national-duped-of-rs-47000-in-electricity-bill-fraud-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign national duped of Rs 47,000 in electricity bill fraud in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A 36-year-old foreign national, staying in Bandra (West), became the latest victim of the light bill scam when a fraudster siphoned off Rs47,000 from her bank account after she was asked to download a remote access app on her mobile to update last month&#8217;s bill that the fraudster claimed was unpaid.<\/p>\n<p>The case was registered with the Bandra police on Saturday. Police said the fraudster stole the victim&#8217;s banking details after she followed the instruction to download the &#8220;Any Desk&#8221; app and logged into her net banking to transfer Rs100.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, employed as a supervisor at a private company in Mumbai, has been staying on rent in Bandra and was duped after she received a text message warning that the power supply will be disconnected by 10.31pm for non-payment of last month&#8217;s light bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: A 36-year-old foreign national, staying in Bandra (West), became the latest victim of the light bill scam when a fraudster siphoned off Rs47,000 from her bank account after she was asked to download a remote access app on her mobile to update last month&#8217;s bill that the fraudster claimed was unpaid. The case was registered with the Bandra police on Saturday. Police said the fraudster stole the victim&#8217;s banking details after she followed the instruction to download the &#8220;Any Desk&#8221; app and logged into her net banking to transfer Rs100. The woman, employed as a supervisor at a private [&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-551688","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\/551688","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=551688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}