Bomb threat to Ahmedabad airport found hoax; police register FIRAhmedabad airport received a bomb threat email from 'evilterrorizer111@gmail.com', which was later confirmed as a hoax. Police registered a...
"Rs 15,000 credited to a/c XXXXX9082": This 'bank message' could be a scam; how to identify, save moneyBank phishing scam: You may get an authentic looking SMS saying that a sum of money has been credited to your bank account. However before ...
Fraudsters attack Booking.com customers after hacking hotelsThe scam, investigated by cyber-security firm Secureworks, involved deployment of the Vidar infostealer to steal a hotel's Booking.com cred...
Mumbai Airport receives email threat to blow up T2; demand of $1 million in BitcoinMumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) got the email at around 11 am on Thursday, November 23. According to reports, the threat mail r...
Noida media house gets email threatening to 'assassinate' PM Modi, CM Yogi AdityanathThe FIR has been lodged against "unknown" at the Sector 20 Police Station under Indian Penal Code sections 153A (1b) (act prejudicial to ma...
DoT to fine Rs 10,000 for fraud messages with fake headersAny sender who is caught sending an SMS using invalid header will be fined in the range of Rs1,000 to Rs 10,000 per violation, plus permane...
Top banks in TRAI list of defaulters of pesky SMS normsThe Authority has ordered telecom companies to resume filtering of messages and block non-compliant traffic from April 1, as “consumers can...
After OTP and SMS services disruption, Trai asks telcos to switch off new filter for 7 daysET had, in its March 9 edition, reported about the disruption caused to several online services because of the inability of telemarketers a...
Trai suspends unsolicited commercial communication norms for seven days“We are concerned about any customer inconvenience caused and have ordered a 7-day temporary suspension of the SMS scrubbing which was acti...
SMS scrubber erases OTPs, nearly 40 per cent traffic disruptedSMSes and OTPs were not coming or received for a host of digital payments after telecom companies implemented a new set of Trai's regulatio...
Implement security protocols to protect payments from cyber frauds: DGFT to exportersIn a trade advisory, the DGFT said Ministry of External Affairs has informed that email spoofing/phishing cyber frauds are causing increase...
WhatsApp payments: How to set up, send and receive money via WhatsApp PayHere is a look at how you can set up a WhatsApp Pay account to send and receive money via UPI. To set-up account, you need to ensure that y...
CBSE papers leak: Google sends reply to Delhi PoliceThe police said that a Class 10 student had received the mathematics paper on WhatsApp and he had used his father's e-mail ID to send the m...
CBSE papers leak: Google sends reply to Delhi PoliceSpecial Commissioner of Police (crime) RP Upadhyay said they have received details of the e-mail address and the sender of the mail has bee...
Sibal calls for fee waiver on money transfer for BPL familiesDepartment of Posts with BSNL announced launch of Mobile Money Transfer scheme in Delhi, Bihar, Punjab and Kerala.
- Your DNC now covers SMS too
Mobile phone subscribers should be able to heave a sigh of relief from this month for they will not receive unsolicited commercial communic...
- New Trai mandate to make it easier to track down SMS spammers
Keeping unsolicited commercial communications in the form of SMSes at bay is likely to get easier from this month onwards, thanks to a rece...