{"id":979275,"date":"2025-12-09T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979275"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:08:09","slug":"iit-madras-phd-holder-loses-rs-3-1l-in-job-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/iit-madras-phd-holder-loses-rs-3-1l-in-job-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Madras PhD holder loses Rs 3.1L in job scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 63-year-old PhD holder from IIT Madras lost Rs 3.08 lakh after falling prey to a fake job-offer racket while searching for a senior consultant role. <\/p>\n<p>The victim, a KPHB resident, was contacted by an impersonator claiming to represent Jobslikes.com and offering senior-level openings in firms such as Siemens, Capgemini and Wipro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 63-year-old PhD holder from IIT Madras lost Rs 3.08 lakh after falling prey to a fake job-offer racket while searching for a senior consultant role. The victim, a KPHB resident, was contacted by an impersonator claiming to represent Jobslikes.com and offering senior-level openings in firms such as Siemens, Capgemini and Wipro.<\/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-979275","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\/979275","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=979275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}