{"id":969353,"date":"2025-10-24T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969353"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:42:13","slug":"influencer-with-over-50m-followers-loses-%e2%82%b950-lakh-to-cyber-fraud-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/influencer-with-over-50m-followers-loses-%e2%82%b950-lakh-to-cyber-fraud-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer with over 50M followers loses \u20b950 lakh to cyber fraud. Here&#8217;s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Instagram creator from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, has fallen victim to a digital extortion racket that preyed on his fear of losing his massive online following. It marks the first of its kind cybercrime in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Azim Ahmed, a 28-year-old social media influencer and entrepreneur from Jabalpur, is a popular figure. According to an NDTV report, he lost \u20b950 lakh to fraudsters who threatened to &#8220;strike&#8221; and &#8220;ban&#8221; his Instagram accounts if he did not comply with their demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Instagram creator from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, has fallen victim to a digital extortion racket that preyed on his fear of losing his massive online following. It marks the first of its kind cybercrime in the region. Azim Ahmed, a 28-year-old social media influencer and entrepreneur from Jabalpur, is a popular figure. According to an NDTV report, he lost \u20b950 lakh to fraudsters who threatened to &#8220;strike&#8221; and &#8220;ban&#8221; his Instagram accounts if he did not comply with their demands.<\/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-969353","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\/969353","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=969353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}