{"id":1005709,"date":"2026-04-29T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005709"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:12:03","slug":"retired-professor-loses-rs-3-26-crore-in-trading-fraud-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/retired-professor-loses-rs-3-26-crore-in-trading-fraud-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired professor loses Rs 3.26 crore in trading fraud in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 74-year-old retired University of Hyderabad (UoH) professor from Hyderguda lost Rs 3.26 crore after investing in a fake trading platform. <\/p>\n<p>On August 9, 2025, a woman identifying herself as Kalki Rishitha Reddy contacted him on Facebook, claiming to be a CEO in tea trading and an expert in trading and mining. On August 22, she introduced him to an investment and mining platform and shared a registration link. Claiming to have recovered Rs 7 crore in cryptocurrency losses, she persuaded him to invest and guided him through account creation using her reference number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 74-year-old retired University of Hyderabad (UoH) professor from Hyderguda lost Rs 3.26 crore after investing in a fake trading platform. On August 9, 2025, a woman identifying herself as Kalki Rishitha Reddy contacted him on Facebook, claiming to be a CEO in tea trading and an expert in trading and mining. On August 22, she introduced him to an investment and mining platform and shared a registration link. Claiming to have recovered Rs 7 crore in cryptocurrency losses, she persuaded him to invest and guided him through account creation using her reference number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}