{"id":973381,"date":"2025-11-12T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973381"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:35:03","slug":"bengaluru-man-loses-rs-1-29-lakh-to-dating-app-investment-scam-heres-how-it-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/12\/bengaluru-man-loses-rs-1-29-lakh-to-dating-app-investment-scam-heres-how-it-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru man loses Rs 1.29 lakh to dating app investment scam: Here\u2019s how it unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man recently became the victim of a dating app investment scam, losing Rs 1.29 crore in the process. The 42-year-old man ended up falling prey to the romance scam, or the \u2018pig-butchering\u2019 technique, which involved him being emotionally manipulated to share a massive amount of his savings in the name of an online investment fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bengaluru man recently became the victim of a dating app investment scam, losing Rs 1.29 crore in the process. The 42-year-old man ended up falling prey to the romance scam, or the \u2018pig-butchering\u2019 technique, which involved him being emotionally manipulated to share a massive amount of his savings in the name of an online investment fraud.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973381","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=973381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}