{"id":882487,"date":"2024-11-30T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=882487"},"modified":"2024-11-30T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:45:18","slug":"whatsapp-share-market-scam-dupe-mumbai-man-loses-%e2%82%b911-1-crore-in-fake-investment-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/30\/whatsapp-share-market-scam-dupe-mumbai-man-loses-%e2%82%b911-1-crore-in-fake-investment-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp share market scam dupe: Mumbai man loses \u20b911.1 crore in fake investment scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unfortunate incident involving a retired 75-year-old senior citizen from Colaba, Mumbai, a fraudster&#8217;s scheme led to the loss of a staggering \u20b911.1 crore. The victim, a former ship captain, fell prey to a well-orchestrated scam that began through a WhatsApp group, reported ET. <\/p>\n<p>As per the publication, the elderly man was added to the group on August 19, under the guise of a reputed financial services company. An individual who introduced herself as \u2018Anya Smith\u2019 quickly made promises of lucrative investment opportunities in the share market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unfortunate incident involving a retired 75-year-old senior citizen from Colaba, Mumbai, a fraudster&#8217;s scheme led to the loss of a staggering \u20b911.1 crore. The victim, a former ship captain, fell prey to a well-orchestrated scam that began through a WhatsApp group, reported ET. As per the publication, the elderly man was added to the group on August 19, under the guise of a reputed financial services company. An individual who introduced herself as \u2018Anya Smith\u2019 quickly made promises of lucrative investment opportunities in the share market.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882487","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=882487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}