{"id":981905,"date":"2025-12-24T08:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981905"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:19:43","slug":"how-a-whatsapp-ipo-scam-which-promised-30-percent-returns-looted-rs-19-crore-from-78-year-old-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/how-a-whatsapp-ipo-scam-which-promised-30-percent-returns-looted-rs-19-crore-from-78-year-old-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"How a WhatsApp IPO scam, which promised 30 percent returns, looted Rs 19 Crore from 78-year-old businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a new ongoing IPO scam on WhatsApp, a 78-year-old textile businessman from Delhi faced a digital nightmare that has cost him Rs 18.80 crore and his peace of mind. What began as a hopeful investment opportunity on a July morning in 2024 has become the second-largest cyber fraud case ever reported in the national capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a new ongoing IPO scam on WhatsApp, a 78-year-old textile businessman from Delhi faced a digital nightmare that has cost him Rs 18.80 crore and his peace of mind. What began as a hopeful investment opportunity on a July morning in 2024 has become the second-largest cyber fraud case ever reported in the national capital.<\/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-981905","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\/981905","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=981905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}