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Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
Jammu and Kashmir police busts international cyber fraud racket targetting victims in US, UK and CanadaJammu and Kashmir police have dismantled a sophisticated international cyber fraud network in Srinagar. Seven individuals were arrested for...
How seven people sitting in a flat in north Delhi cheated US citizens from California, Texas and New YorkSeven people have been arrested during a raid carried out by Delhi's Crime Branch who ran an illegal international call centre and duped US...
Cyber fraud crackdown: Six arrested in Bihar for running global crime syndicateThe group was allegedly operating through a network of associates in various states, including West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, ...
Meta asked to curb WhatsApp related scamsIndia's IT ministry is pressuring Meta to curb scams originating on WhatsApp. Fraudsters are using the platform for various schemes, includ...
Centre asks Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to curb WhatsApp-centric scamsIndia's Ministry of Electronics and IT is working with Meta to address the rise of WhatsApp scams. The scams involve fraudulent messages an...
SBI cautions about a new fraud; Do not trust the calls from CBI, Income Tax department without verifying their identityState Bank of India: Recently SBI through an SMS campaign has started to alert its customers about a new fraud where impoters impersonating...
No provision for 'digital arrest' worldwide; report cybercrimes at earliest: ExpertsCybercriminals in Uttar Pradesh are posing as officials from CBI and RBI. They deceive victims into transferring money by using digital arr...
Delhi court denies bail to man accused of cheating people across world through fraud callsA Delhi court has denied bail to a man accused of cheating people in multiple countries, including USA, out of approximately Rs 157 crore t...
Indian VOIP firm, director indicted in US for causing Americans $20 million loss: Justice departmentGupta and E Sampark maintained approximately sixty servers from May 2015 to June 2020 in Florida that the company used at times to connect ...
US files lawsuits against call centres, mostly from India, for making fake robocalls to AmericansIn each case, the Department of Justice sought an order immediately halting the defendants' transmission of unlawful robocall traffic. A fe...
SIM box fraud: Beware! It's a new menace for telecom industryThis fraud not only costs billions to operators and the government, but even makes a country vulnerable to security threats.
BPO racket points to bigger malaiseSome 630 people were working at these offices and their starting salary was around Rs 30,000 a month. The daily turnover of these centres w...
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- If you receive an automated call from 0800, beware!
The caller from this number may ‘vish’ away your bank balance to zero if you divulge details. These new smart alecks are called vishers & a...
- The vish may bite off your bank a/c
The virtual crooks are becoming smarter and less visible. This time they have devised a novel way of sending a routine text message much li...
- Fraudsters take to phishing on phone
While banks and other financial institutions have discovered new methods to beat online frauds, phishers have come up with a way to beat th...
- Fraudsters now phish on phone
In phone phishing, fraudsters typically use a phone call to extract financial information from users.
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