{"id":849041,"date":"2024-08-28T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T05:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=849041"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T05:25:02","slug":"mumbai-man-loses-rs-90-lakh-to-whatsapp-investment-scam-heres-what-happened-and-how-to-stay-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/28\/mumbai-man-loses-rs-90-lakh-to-whatsapp-investment-scam-heres-what-happened-and-how-to-stay-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai man loses Rs 90 lakh to WhatsApp investment scam: Here\u2019s what happened and how to stay safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mumbai man has fallen victim to an investment scam after joining a WhatsApp group that promised expert advice on investment strategies. The victim lost a huge sum of Rs 90 lakh to the scammers who operated the group.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s what happened<br \/>\nAccording to a report by The Indian Express, the victim joined the WhatsApp group. The group claimed to be led by &#8220;foreign experts&#8221; who offered members investment tips and strategies promising substantial profits in a short period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mumbai man has fallen victim to an investment scam after joining a WhatsApp group that promised expert advice on investment strategies. The victim lost a huge sum of Rs 90 lakh to the scammers who operated the group. Here\u2019s what happened According to a report by The Indian Express, the victim joined the WhatsApp group. The group claimed to be led by &#8220;foreign experts&#8221; who offered members investment tips and strategies promising substantial profits in a short period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849041","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}