{"id":989694,"date":"2026-02-04T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989694"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:48:40","slug":"kochi-it-professional-loses-rs-1-21-crore-in-online-share-trading-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/kochi-it-professional-loses-rs-1-21-crore-in-online-share-trading-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi IT professional loses Rs 1.21 crore in online share trading scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Amid a worrying surge in cyber fraud cases, a Kochi-based IT professional has allegedly fallen victim to a sophisticated online share trading scam, losing Rs 1.21 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The victim, a 53-year-old native of Thekkum Bhagam in Tripunithura, lodged a complaint, following which police registered a case for cheating and criminal breach of trust under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: Amid a worrying surge in cyber fraud cases, a Kochi-based IT professional has allegedly fallen victim to a sophisticated online share trading scam, losing Rs 1.21 crore. The victim, a 53-year-old native of Thekkum Bhagam in Tripunithura, lodged a complaint, following which police registered a case for cheating and criminal breach of trust under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2008.<\/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-989694","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\/989694","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=989694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}