{"id":986384,"date":"2026-01-19T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986384"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:45:11","slug":"hyderabad-techie-falls-prey-to-online-trading-ipo-investment-scam-loses-3-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/hyderabad-techie-falls-prey-to-online-trading-ipo-investment-scam-loses-3-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad techie falls prey to online trading, IPO investment scam, loses 3 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A 45-year-old IT professional from Tellapur lost over 2.9 crore to fraudsters operating a bogus online stock-market investment and IPO-allotment racket, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cyberabad cybercrime sleuths, who registered a case on Friday, the victim from Gopanapally was researching online about the stock market on Nov 12, 2025, when a pop-up led him to a WhatsApp group run by a man, who introduced himself as Anil Goel, a stock market investment advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A 45-year-old IT professional from Tellapur lost over 2.9 crore to fraudsters operating a bogus online stock-market investment and IPO-allotment racket, police said. According to the Cyberabad cybercrime sleuths, who registered a case on Friday, the victim from Gopanapally was researching online about the stock market on Nov 12, 2025, when a pop-up led him to a WhatsApp group run by a man, who introduced himself as Anil Goel, a stock market investment advisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986384","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}