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Indian national sentenced to prison in US for scamming elderly residentsAn Indian national, Ligneshkumar H. Patel, has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for his involvement in an imposter scam. He de...
Bengaluru man duped of Rs 1.4 Lakh in escort scam orchestrated onlineIn Bengaluru, Rahul, a 29-year-old, lost ₹1.4 lakh in an online escort service scam. He was lured by a website, "Kissbal Escorts Services,"...
Gold grifting scam rises in the US: How fraudsters are exploiting victims including a Vietnam veteran who lost $80,000Gold grifting is a scam where fraudsters deceive people into handing over their gold through impersonation, fake documentation or psycholog...
A new weapon against cyber fraud: Govt’s I4C database enables search for known scamsters, can help prevent digital arrestGovernment's I4C database: The National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal maintains a database of know scammers which you can search using UPI I...
Bengaluru techie loses Rs 11.8 crore after falling victim to "digital arrest" scamA Bengaluru software engineer transferred Rs 11.8 crore during a 'digital arrest' scam lasting from November 25 to December 12, 2024. Fraud...
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...
SP Oswal, Vardhman Group's chief, lost Rs 7 crore in online scam by fake CBILudhiana Police arrested two suspects from Guwahati for duping industrialist S P Oswal of Rs 7 crore by posing as CBI officers. The suspect...
IPO allotment fraud: Fraudsters impersonating UBS Group, duping people; how to avoid stock market scamsStock market scam: Preying on your greed for more money, fraudsters are impersonating UBS Group AG and its subsidiaries USB Securities Indi...
Tokyo Swindlers: Check out premiere date, cast, creative team, plot and characters"Tokyo Swindlers" follows a group of con artists led by Harrison Yamanaka, who defraud major developers in Tokyo. The series features Ayano...
How Bengaluru woman lost Rs 77,000 while returning spoilt milk to online grocery platformA 65-year-old woman in Bengaluru, Sophia, lost Rs 77,000 in an online scam while attempting to return spoiled milk bought from an online gr...
Ludhiana man falls victim to membership scam by fake Zomato employeeFake Zomato employees are scamming business owners in Ludhiana, offering bogus membership deals. The imposters, posing as part of the Zomat...
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...
Police probe China link to 'FedEx' con"In one of the cases in Mumbai the probe has revealed that the money raised through the con operation was converted into cryptocurrencies a...
Vyapam scam: HC grants conditional bail to nine ex-officials of private medical collegesThe scam in Vyapam or Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, now renamed MP Karmachari Chayan Aayog, broke out in 2013, wherein can...
Police find money trails after arrest of IAS impersonatorPolice sources told ET that it had received complaints from two specific people that Debanjan Deb had reportedly taken ₹10 lakh from a pers...
Fake profiles of IPS officials on Facebook on the riseSecurity experts say IPS officials, other high ranking officers have increasingly complained of account impersonation, other online financi...
Vyapam scam: Here's what it takes to lure exam fraudsThe Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (MP STF) has detained over three dozen students from colleges across UP, many of whom are imposters.
Yet another Vyapam scam accused diesNarendra Singh Tomar, an accused in the high-profile MPPEB scam, has died under mysterious circumstances in an Indore jail
MPPEB scam: 1,000 appointments, selections found fake, says Shivraj Singh ChouhanIn view of the magnitude of the scam, the state govt decided to handover the case to the STF which is probing it currently in an impartial ...
- 100 fake doctors? Madhya Pradesh hit by Munnabhai scam
A Munnabhai MBBS scenario unfolded in Madhya Pradesh as six government medical colleges were found to be training at least 114 potential do...