{"id":983823,"date":"2026-01-07T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983823"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:12:26","slug":"chatgpt-alert-helps-bengaluru-senior-citizen-uncover-rs-67-lakh-pre-ipo-investment-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/chatgpt-alert-helps-bengaluru-senior-citizen-uncover-rs-67-lakh-pre-ipo-investment-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT alert helps Bengaluru senior citizen uncover Rs 67 lakh pre-IPO investment fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 77-year-old senior citizen has approached the cybercrime police after discovering that he was allegedly cheated out of more than Rs 67 lakh in the guise of lucrative pre-IPO stock market investments. The fraud came to light after the victim checked the firm\u2019s credentials using ChatGPT, which flagged multiple warning signs. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the victim, a resident of Binnypet, was contacted in November 2025 by a man identifying himself as Yatin Shah, who claimed to be an adviser with IIFL Wealth Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: A 77-year-old senior citizen has approached the cybercrime police after discovering that he was allegedly cheated out of more than Rs 67 lakh in the guise of lucrative pre-IPO stock market investments. The fraud came to light after the victim checked the firm\u2019s credentials using ChatGPT, which flagged multiple warning signs. According to police, the victim, a resident of Binnypet, was contacted in November 2025 by a man identifying himself as Yatin Shah, who claimed to be an adviser with IIFL Wealth Management.<\/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-983823","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\/983823","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=983823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}