{"id":982427,"date":"2025-12-29T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982427"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:31:03","slug":"whatsapp-stock-investment-scam-loots-rs-16-lakhs-from-gujarat-man-heres-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/29\/whatsapp-stock-investment-scam-loots-rs-16-lakhs-from-gujarat-man-heres-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp stock investment scam loots Rs 16 lakhs from Gujarat man: Here\u2019s what happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old private firm employee from Bhuj in Gujarat\u2019s Kutch district has become the latest victim of a sophisticated WhatsApp-based stock investment scam, losing more than Rs 16 lakh to cybercriminals. Ajitsinh Jadeja filed a complaint with the local cybercrime police after realising he had been duped over several months through a carefully orchestrated fraud involving fake apps, manipulated profits, and persistent demands for additional payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 42-year-old private firm employee from Bhuj in Gujarat\u2019s Kutch district has become the latest victim of a sophisticated WhatsApp-based stock investment scam, losing more than Rs 16 lakh to cybercriminals. Ajitsinh Jadeja filed a complaint with the local cybercrime police after realising he had been duped over several months through a carefully orchestrated fraud involving fake apps, manipulated profits, and persistent demands for additional payments.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982427","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=982427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}