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How a Bareilly teen used a lowercase ‘n’ and Flight Mode to rescue his parents from a 9-hour digital arrest

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Bareilly: A 14-year-old Tanmay Saxena saved his parents from a sophisticated “digital arrest” scam by spotting a typo on a fake NIA sign, noticing an officer’s uncharacteristic long beard, and hearing through their unprofessional speech. The boy ended nine-hour ordeal by putting their phone on flight mode while they slept. The Class 7 student’s quick thinking prevented his family from losing their life savings to fraudsters who had convinced the…
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NEWS9 LIVE broke the news on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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