{"id":990647,"date":"2026-02-07T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990647"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:28:46","slug":"bitcoin-scam-replying-to-wrong-message-costs-bengaluru-man-rs-70-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/bitcoin-scam-replying-to-wrong-message-costs-bengaluru-man-rs-70-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin scam: Replying to wrong message costs Bengaluru man Rs 70 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: It began as a harmless reply to a wrongly sent message on Telegram but resulted in a loss of Rs 70 lakh for a 50-year-old private firm employee, who was lured into a bitcoin investment scam by an unknown woman.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint filed by a resident of Kodihalli in east Bengaluru, he received a message on Telegram from a woman identifying herself as Priya Agarwal on Nov 30, last year. She claimed she was attempting to contact a person named Rahul and messaged him by mistake. Instead of ignoring the message, the man continued the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: It began as a harmless reply to a wrongly sent message on Telegram but resulted in a loss of Rs 70 lakh for a 50-year-old private firm employee, who was lured into a bitcoin investment scam by an unknown woman. According to the complaint filed by a resident of Kodihalli in east Bengaluru, he received a message on Telegram from a woman identifying herself as Priya Agarwal on Nov 30, last year. She claimed she was attempting to contact a person named Rahul and messaged him by mistake. Instead of ignoring the message, the man continued the conversation.<\/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-990647","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\/990647","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=990647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}