{"id":983605,"date":"2026-01-06T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983605"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:05:34","slug":"hyderabad-man-loses-rs-1-71-crore-to-investment-scam-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/hyderabad-man-loses-rs-1-71-crore-to-investment-scam-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad man loses Rs 1.71 crore to investment scam on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old private employee from LB Nagar lost Rs 1.71 crore after investing on a fake investment platform. In November, the victim was added to a WhatsApp group that promised stock market tips. Members of the group suggested a trading application, claiming it would generate high profits. <\/p>\n<p>Group members discussed trades and shared screenshots showing significant returns. Encouraged by these claims, the victim began trading through a link suggested by one of the members and started investing money on the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old private employee from LB Nagar lost Rs 1.71 crore after investing on a fake investment platform. In November, the victim was added to a WhatsApp group that promised stock market tips. Members of the group suggested a trading application, claiming it would generate high profits. Group members discussed trades and shared screenshots showing significant returns. Encouraged by these claims, the victim began trading through a link suggested by one of the members and started investing money on the platform.<\/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-983605","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\/983605","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=983605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}