{"id":840581,"date":"2024-08-03T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840581"},"modified":"2024-08-03T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:14:45","slug":"delhi-woman-loses-rs-24-lakh-beware-of-fake-investment-ads-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/03\/delhi-woman-loses-rs-24-lakh-beware-of-fake-investment-ads-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi woman loses Rs 24 lakh: Beware of fake investment ads on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake ads luring victims into making investments &#8220;endorsed&#8221; by famous entrepreneurs or financial firms are becoming a big problem on social media. A 36-year-old woman from Delhi recently fell victim to one such scam while browsing Facebook. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened <\/p>\n<p>While on Facebook, she found a link advertising stock market investments through Upstox Securities, a well-known trading app in India. Curious, she clicked on the link and was added to a WhatsApp group named &#8220;V5-VIP Upstox Services Group.&#8221; According to an FIR she later filed, the group offered stock trading tips and eventually led her to a fraudulent application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake ads luring victims into making investments &#8220;endorsed&#8221; by famous entrepreneurs or financial firms are becoming a big problem on social media. A 36-year-old woman from Delhi recently fell victim to one such scam while browsing Facebook. Here&#8217;s what happened While on Facebook, she found a link advertising stock market investments through Upstox Securities, a well-known trading app in India. Curious, she clicked on the link and was added to a WhatsApp group named &#8220;V5-VIP Upstox Services Group.&#8221; According to an FIR she later filed, the group offered stock trading tips and eventually led her to a fraudulent application.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840581","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=840581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}