{"id":990286,"date":"2026-02-06T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990286"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:22:29","slug":"hyderabad-businessman-loses-rs-1-22-crore-to-online-trading-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/hyderabad-businessman-loses-rs-1-22-crore-to-online-trading-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad businessman loses Rs 1.22 crore to online trading scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old businessman from Humayunnagar lost 1.22 crore after investing in a fake investment platform. <\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad Cybercrime police said that on January 9, he received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number claiming to offer institutional trading returns. He was added to a WhatsApp group and persuaded to invest through a shared link. Members posted screenshots of IPO allotments and profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A 32-year-old businessman from Humayunnagar lost 1.22 crore after investing in a fake investment platform. Hyderabad Cybercrime police said that on January 9, he received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number claiming to offer institutional trading returns. He was added to a WhatsApp group and persuaded to invest through a shared link. Members posted screenshots of IPO allotments and profits.<\/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-990286","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\/990286","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=990286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}