{"id":611149,"date":"2023-10-19T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=611149"},"modified":"2023-10-19T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:12:54","slug":"electricity-bill-payment-scam-how-not-to-become-a-victim-of-this-dangerous-fraud-that-emptied-bank-account-of-lakhs-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-bill-payment-scam-how-not-to-become-a-victim-of-this-dangerous-fraud-that-emptied-bank-account-of-lakhs-across-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Bill Payment scam: How not to become a victim of this dangerous fraud that emptied bank account of lakhs across India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scam involving electricity bill payments has resurfaced. Scammers typically hack people\u2019s phones with a text message that states their electricity bill is unpaid and that they should clear it immediately. The messages claim to be from the electricity department and warn the receiver that their home\u2019s power will be turned off tonight because last month\u2019s bill hasn\u2019t been paid yet.<\/p>\n<p>How to stay protected from online electricity bill payments scam<\/p>\n<p>Verify sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scam involving electricity bill payments has resurfaced. Scammers typically hack people\u2019s phones with a text message that states their electricity bill is unpaid and that they should clear it immediately. The messages claim to be from the electricity department and warn the receiver that their home\u2019s power will be turned off tonight because last month\u2019s bill hasn\u2019t been paid yet. How to stay protected from online electricity bill payments scam Verify sources<\/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-611149","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\/611149","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=611149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}