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Rs 2,49,246.61 gone in minutes: India’s new traffic challan scam is emptying bank accounts; Here’s how to stay safeCybercriminals are exploiting fear and urgency with fake traffic challan messages, leading victims to fraudulent payment pages. An elderly ...
Bengaluru: How a brilliant Hyderabad techie, addicted to gaming, ended up becoming a serial burglar wanted in nearly 90 casesL. Srinivas, a debt-ridden engineer, faces 86 criminal cases for burglary and cyber fraud, driven by losses from online gambling. In a sepa...
Digital arrest: 90-year-old duped of Rs 3.4 crore in fake courtroom sting, two taken into custodyDelhi Police arrested Amit Sharma and Hari Swargiary. They are accused of scamming a 90-year-old man. The victim lost Rs 3.42 crore. Scamme...
How ‘hypnotising seers’ from a Uttarakhand village used magnets to cheat people in GurgaonThandanala, a village in Uttarakhand, became infamous for its con artists. These fraudsters travelled to different states and cheated peopl...
How scamsters duped an elderly man of Rs 33 lakh by promising to buy his old coinsA 63-year-old businessman was scammed out of Rs 33 lakh over eight months by fraudsters promising to buy his old coins. The investigation l...
Mumbai: 86-year-old loses Rs 20 crore after being kept under digital arrest for two monthsAn 86-year-old Mumbai woman lost Rs 20 crore to scammers who threatened her with arrest for alleged money laundering. The fraudsters posed ...
Delhi man posing as insurance agent visited elderly, pretended to renew policies, and scammed them of lakhs: Police explain the scamDelhi Police arrested a 26-year-old man, Priyesh Giri, for duping senior citizens by pretending to help renew their health insurance. He sc...
Cyber fraud: 75-year-old man duped Rs 11 crore in MumbaiA 75-year-old Mumbai man lost ₹11.1 crore to a share trading scam after joining a fraudulent WhatsApp group. He transferred funds to variou...
Financial planning: Why end-of-life planning is crucial and how to do itAs we age, we should make a realistic estimate of what we may need and take steps to get rid of, give away and reduce our belongings, durin...
Influencer's father loses Rs 3 lakh in ‘Swiggy customer service scam’. How it happenedA 65-year-old man was defrauded of over Rs 3 lakh after trying to contact Swiggy's customer service due to an undelivered order. His son, N...
Can you trust your ears? AI voice scams rattle USThe biggest peril of Artificial Intelligence, experts say, is its ability to demolish the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing c...
Can you trust your ears? How fraudsters are using strikingly convincing AI voice cloning tools to steal from peopleThe biggest peril of Artificial Intelligence, experts say, is its ability to demolish the boundaries between reality and fiction, handing c...
No secret pact with Yakub Memon, but we induced him to return: Ex-CBI officialShantanu Sen, who led the CBI investigation in the Mumbai blasts, said no secret deal was struck, although CBI used its pakistan contacts.