G20 website targeted at least 16 lakh times last year: Cyber AgencyIndia's official G20 website was attacked at least 16 lakh times last year, with ₹10,319 crore stolen between April 2021 and December 2023....
Look Out Circular issued against three Chinese nationals in online Ponzi scamThe Bureau of Immigration has issued a look-out circular against three Chinese citizens involved in a large-scale online Ponzi scam. The in...
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 ...
SEBI to direct brokers, mutual funds to limit use of financial influencersA surge in retail investors in equity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a proliferation of influencers pushing financial advice o...
GoI works with IT ministry and RBI to clamp down on Ponzi appsHistorically, scamsters have been one step ahead of regulators. What has alarmingly deepened the reach of today's faceless - and often stat...
Clamping down on Ponzi schemes like never before: FM SitharamanA Ponzi scheme is one where old investors are paid returns with money deposited by new investors. The new entrants may not get any returns ...
Visa pauses single-click checkout; trouble mounts for Blinkit as delivery workers join rivalsCard payments major Visa has paused its single-click checkout service in India amid RBI’s attempts to make the digital payments industry sa...
Finance Ministry working with MeitY, RBI to clamp down on ponzi apps: Nirmala SitharamanAsserting that investors should be cautious of influencers, she said if there are three or four people giving us very objective good advice...
No proposal before govt to regulate financial influencers on social media: Nirmala SitharamanUnion Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that the government has not received any proposal regarding regulation of financia...
Paper suggests dashboard, integrating data of Chinese cos for real-time monitoring“Chinese entities are using investment received from top companies such as Alibaba and Tencent to own, control and manage Indian entities,”...
This Ponzi crypto app dupes people by offering high returnsMany bank customers are currently being conned by a bitcoin Ponzi programme that promises them big profits.
Online job scam: Enforcement Directorate freezes 80 bank accounts with Chinese linksAccording to the agency, 16 locations of the banks and payment gateways, including Phonepay, Paytm, Googlepay, Amazonpay etc. and few banks...
Common investment frauds and how to avoid themInvestment frauds are on the rise. Those hopeful of high returns in the short run tend to lose the most.
Pakistan issues notice to crypto exchange Binance while investigating scam"An order of attendance has been issued to Hamza Khan, the general manager/growth analyst at Binance Pakistan, to explain his position on t...
Scamsters spin 'blessing looms' to mint easy money as world battles corona crisisAt the peak of the COVID-19 crisis, which has left many jobless and a lot others within confines of their homes for 'work from home', the l...
Noida bike taxi scam snared 2.5L investors across India40 FIRs have been filed while complaints from investors in Jaipur, Noida, Meerut, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Hathras and Delhi are still to be re...
Ringing Bells' Freedom 251 smartphones will be delivered at a huge loss. How far can they go?The few thousand Freedom 251 smartphones that will be delivered over the next few days will be at a huge loss. The bubble may only get bigg...