{"id":1019525,"date":"2026-07-08T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019525"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:12:54","slug":"doctor-falls-for-fake-advertisement-duped-of-rs-86-lakh-in-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/doctor-falls-for-fake-advertisement-duped-of-rs-86-lakh-in-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor falls for fake advertisement, duped of Rs 86 lakh in Hyderabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyber fraudsters allegedly cheated a 76-year-old doctor of Rs 86 lakh by impersonating representatives of an investment platform and misusing the name and image of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a fraudulent social media advertisement. <\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, the doctor came across an online advertisement on March 9 claiming investors could earn Rs 22 lakh a week. The next day, he received a WhatsApp call from a man identifying himself as \u2018Ashwin\u2019, who claimed to represent a company called Social Venture Capital and persuaded him to register by paying Rs 17,500 and opening a Demat account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Cyber fraudsters allegedly cheated a 76-year-old doctor of Rs 86 lakh by impersonating representatives of an investment platform and misusing the name and image of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a fraudulent social media advertisement. According to the complaint, the doctor came across an online advertisement on March 9 claiming investors could earn Rs 22 lakh a week. The next day, he received a WhatsApp call from a man identifying himself as \u2018Ashwin\u2019, who claimed to represent a company called Social Venture Capital and persuaded him to register by paying Rs 17,500 and opening a Demat account.<\/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-1019525","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\/1019525","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=1019525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019556,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019525\/revisions\/1019556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}