Chinese syndicates to keep hurting India via loan app scams: Cyber expertChinese loan apps, operated by Chinese criminal syndicates and gangs, are causing significant financial losses in India. Pavan Duggal, a cy...
21 Jan, 2024, 12.35 PM IST
Odisha Police arrests India head of Chinese earning app from Tamil NaduThe EOW said that the mastermind of this scam is Guanhua Wang, 40, of Hangzhou, China. He along with two other Chinese nationals (one male ...
17 Aug, 2023, 08.07 PM IST
Like its apps in India, China has turned world's loan mafiaAn Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China - including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia - found pay...
19 May, 2023, 08.17 PM IST
How scamsters in India are sending thousands of crores of rupees back to ChinaChinese scammers have suddenly mushroomed after the pandemic, which led to a widespread use of various kinds of apps and other digital tech...
28 Apr, 2023, 05.09 PM IST
MHA wants 100+ apps linked to China, Philippines blockedThe Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), in the past, has sought a ban on as many as 500 apps that were sending data of Indians to...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.23 AM IST
Chinese loan apps case: Karnataka HC says investigation must for Kerala-based firmThe assistant director of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) passed an order on September 2, 2022, freezing the bank account of Inditrade ...
02 Mar, 2023, 12.55 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: why are quick-loan apps under the government scanner?The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology through its latest orders has banned a total of 232 apps. Some of these apps have Ch...
07 Feb, 2023, 08.33 PM IST
India to ban Chinese-linked betting and loan lending appsIndia's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has begun a process to ban and block 138 betting apps and 94 loan lendin...
05 Feb, 2023, 02.04 PM IST
UP Police unearths Rs 4,200 cr fraud with links to Chinese operatorsEarlier this year, the police found a link with China-based operators and were cheating people out of crores of rupees across India. This w...
09 Sep, 2022, 08.19 PM IST
India aims to copy China, but not in lending-by-app crazeThe RBI wants to strike a better balance between the ability of digital lending to democratize credit and its potential to suck people into...
19 Aug, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Illegal activities of Chinese companies in India under lensSeveral Chinese companies in India were found to be involved in tax evasions, according to an investigation launched by security and probe ...
07 Mar, 2022, 07.24 AM IST
Indian fintech lenders grab turf from China as Google begins app clean-upMost domestic fintech lenders that ET spoke with said that their business rose 20-40% month-on-month since December, when the crackdown sta...
23 Feb, 2021, 07.57 AM IST
India cracks down on China-backed fintech lenders in the countryThe Enforcement Directorate and CIDs have launched probe against more than two dozen China-backed loan apps and directed Paytm and Razorpay...
22 Jan, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
Fintech firms write to Google, demand uniform regulationsOnline lending firms say that Google is acting like a super regulator, seeking details that even the RBI is yet to do. They have written to...
18 Jan, 2021, 07.17 AM IST
2 Chinese among 4 held for running instant loan appThe investigation based on a complaint here, revealed the prime accused to be operating from China, the police said. The two Indians had be...
02 Jan, 2021, 11.29 PM IST
Probe into instant loan apps fraud throws up China linkConfirming the China connection, superintendent of police, CID-cybercrime, MD Sharath, said: “Operations of the companies which were raided...
28 Dec, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Loan apps pushing people into debt traps, suicidesThe tap-and-get-a-loan “solution” is pushing a large number of people into a trap far deeper than the financial condition they are in.
23 Dec, 2020, 02.49 PM IST