{"id":984974,"date":"2026-01-13T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984974"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:27:53","slug":"erode-man-held-for-rs-1-2-crore-online-stock-trading-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/erode-man-held-for-rs-1-2-crore-online-stock-trading-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Erode man held for Rs 1.2 crore online stock trading scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The cyber crime wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested the man who duped a Chennai resident of Rs 1.23 crore in an online stock market investment scam. <\/p>\n<p>The victim, Mahendran, a resident of Villivakkam, had received a WhatsApp message from an unknown person who promised high returns on stock market investments. Believing it to be true, he downloaded a fake online trading mobile application and invested Rs 1 lakh, said a police officer. Initially, he saw profits generated on the app. The accused, citing new rules, asked the victim to deposit more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The cyber crime wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested the man who duped a Chennai resident of Rs 1.23 crore in an online stock market investment scam. The victim, Mahendran, a resident of Villivakkam, had received a WhatsApp message from an unknown person who promised high returns on stock market investments. Believing it to be true, he downloaded a fake online trading mobile application and invested Rs 1 lakh, said a police officer. Initially, he saw profits generated on the app. The accused, citing new rules, asked the victim to deposit more money.<\/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-984974","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\/984974","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=984974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}