{"id":954446,"date":"2025-08-12T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954446"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:12:08","slug":"housewife-in-hyderabad-loses-rs-1-52-crore-in-investment-fraud-via-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/housewife-in-hyderabad-loses-rs-1-52-crore-in-investment-fraud-via-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Housewife in Hyderabad loses Rs 1.52 crore in investment fraud via mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 45-year-old woman from the city lost Rs 1.52 crore in an investment fraud involving a mobile application. The woman, a master\u2019s degree holder and currently a housewife, told police she was added to a WhatsApp group where discussions were held on investments in upper circuit stocks and mutual funds. <\/p>\n<p>She opened an account through a link shared in the group and began investing in upper circuit stocks, SME\/mainboard IPOs and mutual funds. She was allotted fake shares in large quantities and persuaded to invest further. When she attempted a partial withdrawal, she was asked to pay a 10% service fee as commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 45-year-old woman from the city lost Rs 1.52 crore in an investment fraud involving a mobile application. The woman, a master\u2019s degree holder and currently a housewife, told police she was added to a WhatsApp group where discussions were held on investments in upper circuit stocks and mutual funds. She opened an account through a link shared in the group and began investing in upper circuit stocks, SME\/mainboard IPOs and mutual funds. She was allotted fake shares in large quantities and persuaded to invest further. When she attempted a partial withdrawal, she was asked to pay a 10% [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954446","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=954446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}