{"id":1021050,"date":"2026-07-15T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021050"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:58:02","slug":"opinion-70-year-old-chartered-accountant-duped-of-rs-21-crore-in-crypto-investment-fraud-in-gwalior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/opinion-70-year-old-chartered-accountant-duped-of-rs-21-crore-in-crypto-investment-fraud-in-gwalior\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION 70-year-old chartered accountant duped of Rs 21 crore in crypto investment fraud in Gwalior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: A 70-year-old chartered accountant from Gwalior allegedly lost Rs 21.05 crore to cyber fraudsters in a cryptocurrency investment scam over six months. <\/p>\n<p>In December 2025, Ashok Vijayvargiya was contacted on WhatsApp by a woman who introduced herself as investment consultant Divya Singh. She persuaded him to invest in cryptocurrency trading, including USDT and Bitcoin, and sent him a link to create an online trading account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHOPAL: A 70-year-old chartered accountant from Gwalior allegedly lost Rs 21.05 crore to cyber fraudsters in a cryptocurrency investment scam over six months. In December 2025, Ashok Vijayvargiya was contacted on WhatsApp by a woman who introduced herself as investment consultant Divya Singh. She persuaded him to invest in cryptocurrency trading, including USDT and Bitcoin, and sent him a link to create an online trading 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-1021050","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\/1021050","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=1021050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021071,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021050\/revisions\/1021071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}