{"id":964988,"date":"2025-09-27T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964988"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:11:08","slug":"bengaluru-techie-duped-of-%e2%82%b944-lakh-in-telegram-to-whatsapp-stock-trading-scam-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/bengaluru-techie-duped-of-%e2%82%b944-lakh-in-telegram-to-whatsapp-stock-trading-scam-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru techie duped of \u20b944 lakh in Telegram-to-WhatsApp stock trading scam: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an yet another case of cybercrime in Bengaluru, a 46-year-old software engineer from Horamavu lost a staggering \u20b944 lakh after falling prey to a fake stock-trading scam that began with a false medical emergency alert.<\/p>\n<p>The victim received a Telegram message on July 11 claiming that someone was in critical condition at a hospital and urging him to rush there. Believing it to be a genuine emergency, he replied that he was not the right contact. The sender, introducing herself as Reeva Chauhan, thanked him for the response, Times of India reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an yet another case of cybercrime in Bengaluru, a 46-year-old software engineer from Horamavu lost a staggering \u20b944 lakh after falling prey to a fake stock-trading scam that began with a false medical emergency alert. The victim received a Telegram message on July 11 claiming that someone was in critical condition at a hospital and urging him to rush there. Believing it to be a genuine emergency, he replied that he was not the right contact. The sender, introducing herself as Reeva Chauhan, thanked him for the response, Times of India reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964988","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}