{"id":932721,"date":"2025-05-22T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932721"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:08:55","slug":"42-whatsapp-users-got-job-scam-messages-asking-for-payment-finds-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/42-whatsapp-users-got-job-scam-messages-asking-for-payment-finds-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"42% WhatsApp users got job scam messages asking for payment, finds survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 42 per cent of WhatsApp users in India have received fraudulent job offers claiming to provide work-from-home or part-time opportunities, often requiring them to pay an upfront amount, according to a recent survey conducted by community social media platform LocalCircles. <\/p>\n<p>The findings highlight the growing menace of WhatsApp-based cyber scams, which are evolving in both scale and sophistication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 42 per cent of WhatsApp users in India have received fraudulent job offers claiming to provide work-from-home or part-time opportunities, often requiring them to pay an upfront amount, according to a recent survey conducted by community social media platform LocalCircles. The findings highlight the growing menace of WhatsApp-based cyber scams, which are evolving in both scale and sophistication.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932721","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=932721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}