{"id":1015816,"date":"2026-06-20T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015816"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:18:34","slug":"decoding-naresh-gujrals-rs-7-68cr-whaling-scam-that-exploits-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/decoding-naresh-gujrals-rs-7-68cr-whaling-scam-that-exploits-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Naresh Gujral\u2019s Rs 7.68cr \u2018whaling\u2019 scam that \u2018exploits\u2019 WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rajya Sabha member Naresh Gujral, the son of former Prime Minister I.K. Gujral, was defrauded of Rs 7.68 crore in a case of cyber scam, reported the Delhi police. The cybercriminals targeted Gujral\u2019s South Delhi-based apparel manufacturing firm by executing a high-profile \u2018whaling\u2019 attack, which involved WhatsApp as the platform. The police say that fraudsters mimicked Gujral\u2019s identity on WhatsApp using his profile picture and exploited a false sense of executive urgency, bypassing the company\u2019s standard financial verification protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rajya Sabha member Naresh Gujral, the son of former Prime Minister I.K. Gujral, was defrauded of Rs 7.68 crore in a case of cyber scam, reported the Delhi police. The cybercriminals targeted Gujral\u2019s South Delhi-based apparel manufacturing firm by executing a high-profile \u2018whaling\u2019 attack, which involved WhatsApp as the platform. The police say that fraudsters mimicked Gujral\u2019s identity on WhatsApp using his profile picture and exploited a false sense of executive urgency, bypassing the company\u2019s standard financial verification protocols.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015816","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=1015816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015834,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015816\/revisions\/1015834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}