{"id":865555,"date":"2024-10-14T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T02:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=865555"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T02:33:46","slug":"online-gaming-scams-small-bets-win-big-bets-lose-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/14\/online-gaming-scams-small-bets-win-big-bets-lose-how-they-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Online gaming scams: Small bets win, big bets lose &#8211; how they work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you bet just Rs 10 on an online game, win, and think, &#8220;Why not try more?&#8221; Encouraged by your small success, you raise the stakes to Rs 500, aiming for a big win. But this time, you lose everything. <\/p>\n<p>This is exactly how a gang in Rajasthan&#8217;s Malar Road, Phalodi district, lured people into their trap. They operated a scam through a gaming app called &#8220;Lotus,&#8221; where they manipulated outcomes to ensure small betters won while those with larger bets always lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you bet just Rs 10 on an online game, win, and think, &#8220;Why not try more?&#8221; Encouraged by your small success, you raise the stakes to Rs 500, aiming for a big win. But this time, you lose everything. This is exactly how a gang in Rajasthan&#8217;s Malar Road, Phalodi district, lured people into their trap. They operated a scam through a gaming app called &#8220;Lotus,&#8221; where they manipulated outcomes to ensure small betters won while those with larger bets always lost.<\/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-865555","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\/865555","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=865555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}