{"id":881624,"date":"2024-11-28T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=881624"},"modified":"2024-11-28T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T02:01:18","slug":"got-a-wedding-invitation-via-whatsapp-beware-of-this-latest-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/28\/got-a-wedding-invitation-via-whatsapp-beware-of-this-latest-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Got a wedding invitation via WhatsApp? Beware of this latest scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding season in India has become a lucrative opportunity for cybercriminals, who are now exploiting the festive spirit with a new scam: Fake wedding invitations disguised as malicious files shared on WhatsApp. <\/p>\n<p>According to a report published in Business Standard, an estimated 4.8 million couples are expected to wed before the end of the year, making it a prime time for scammers to exploit emotions and drain unsuspecting victims of their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding season in India has become a lucrative opportunity for cybercriminals, who are now exploiting the festive spirit with a new scam: Fake wedding invitations disguised as malicious files shared on WhatsApp. According to a report published in Business Standard, an estimated 4.8 million couples are expected to wed before the end of the year, making it a prime time for scammers to exploit emotions and drain unsuspecting victims of their money.<\/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-881624","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\/881624","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=881624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}