{"id":932919,"date":"2025-05-22T08:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932919"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:29:37","slug":"paytm-founder-calls-out-scamster-impersonating-him-shares-screenshots-of-hilarious-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/paytm-founder-calls-out-scamster-impersonating-him-shares-screenshots-of-hilarious-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm founder calls out scamster impersonating him; shares screenshots of hilarious exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma took to X to share screenshots of a humorous exchange with an alleged scammer, who attempted to impersonate him in order to extract sensitive information about the company&#8217;s funds. Penning a post titled &#8220;Impersonating myself to me&#8221;, Sharma revealed the chain of WhatsApp messages in which the fraudster introduced himself as Vijay Shekhar Sharma and asked the real Sharma to save his &#8220;new&#8221; phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma took to X to share screenshots of a humorous exchange with an alleged scammer, who attempted to impersonate him in order to extract sensitive information about the company&#8217;s funds. Penning a post titled &#8220;Impersonating myself to me&#8221;, Sharma revealed the chain of WhatsApp messages in which the fraudster introduced himself as Vijay Shekhar Sharma and asked the real Sharma to save his &#8220;new&#8221; phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932919","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}