{"id":1208,"date":"2021-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/?p=linkedin-85"},"modified":"2021-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"my-bank-balance-became-near-zero-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/my-bank-balance-became-near-zero-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"My bank balance became near zero overnight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My bank balance became near zero overnight.<br \/>\nAnd our whole Inventory was robbed by fraudsters.<br \/>\nIt happened exactly 17 years back today 10th Sep 2003.<br \/>\nI lost everything that I have Invested.<br \/>\nOvernight some fraudsters used stolen credit cards to loot all my inventory. (Calling cards) from our website.<br \/>\nCalling cards are like real cash value stored in one secret pin like gift card.<br \/>\nI cried a lot and could not pull together for next couple of weeks.<br \/>\nI was 25 yrs old and working full time job and also had this e-Commerce website as my first startup.<br \/>\nThe website sends calling card pins to customer\u2019s email after receiving payment through Paypal.<br \/>\nAll my inventory (Calling card Pins Virtual cash) are sent out to fraudsters emails<br \/>\nThus I lost all my money over night.<br \/>\nTwo year later same startup bought me first exit<br \/>\nand became millionaire.<br \/>\nI am sharing this true story with a hope to inspire<br \/>\nsome of those who lost their job. Or<br \/>\nEntrepreneurs who are facing challenges during this unprecedented times.<br \/>\nMy two cents : Just hang on there with hope.<br \/>\nEvery hurdle will pass by teaching us something.<br \/>\nFuture will be brighter,Mean while let these tough times teach us some new lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bank balance became near zero overnight.<br \/>\nAnd our whole Inventory was robbed by fraudsters.<br \/>\nIt happened exactly 17 years back today 10th Sep 2003.<br \/>\nI lost everything that I have Invested.<br \/>\nOvernight s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin-posts","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}