{"id":653097,"date":"2025-11-18T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653097"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:18:36","slug":"gas-cylinder-subsidy-calls-back-on-prowl-dupe-11-victims-of-lakhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gas-cylinder-subsidy-calls-back-on-prowl-dupe-11-victims-of-lakhs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gas cylinder subsidy\u2019 calls back on prowl, dupe 11 victims of lakhs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Around 11 Kolkatans last week came to Kolkata Police reporting losses \u2014 from a few thousand to a few lakhs \u2014 through the &#8220;gas cylinder scam&#8221;, wherein the victims reportedly received calls purportedly from their local gas dealer, stating they would receive Rs 5,500 as arrears of the subsidy for LPG cylinders from the time of the pandemic. In the 10-minute conversations, phone calls shifted to WhatsApp video calls, where the accused gave instructions to type in a few numbers. The accused gave the impression that money would be credited to the victim&#8217;s account before asking for the OTP.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the cyber cell of Kolkata Police \u2013 along with divisional cyber cells \u2013 issued a warning about the new scam targeting UPI users, where fraudsters are using the pretext of the central govt subsidy to deceive individuals into compromising their financial information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Around 11 Kolkatans last week came to Kolkata Police reporting losses \u2014 from a few thousand to a few lakhs \u2014 through the &#8220;gas cylinder scam&#8221;, wherein the victims reportedly received calls purportedly from their local gas dealer, stating they would receive Rs 5,500 as arrears of the subsidy for LPG cylinders from the time of the pandemic. In the 10-minute conversations, phone calls shifted to WhatsApp video calls, where the accused gave instructions to type in a few numbers. The accused gave the impression that money would be credited to the victim&#8217;s account before asking for the OTP. [&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":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653097","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=653097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}