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Mumbai: Five, including Youtuber, held from Jharkhand for online cheating
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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Mumbai: Five, including Youtuber, held from Jharkhand for online cheating

[ad_1] Five persons, including a Youtuber from Jharkhand, have been arrested for alleged involvement in two cyber fraud cases in Mumbai, a police official said on Sunday. In the first case, a person from Gamdevi in south Mumbai was duped of Rs. 89000 after he ordered a tiffin online, the official said.In the second case, a man, also from Gamdevi, lost Rs. 1.5 lakh after her was asked to pay his electricity online on February 4-5, he said. "The modus operandi was the same and the cyber cell of Gamdevi police managed to track the IP address to Jharkhand. A team was sent there on March 22. We arrested 29-year-old Youtuber Santoshkumar Mandal and a mason Nageshwar Thakur from Dumka," he said. "Their interrogation led to the arrest of one more person from Deoghar in the eastern state." These...
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Economic Offences Wing arrests man in Pune for running online ponzi scheme, defrauding thousands of people
3Apr By adminNo Comments
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Economic Offences Wing arrests man in Pune for running online ponzi scheme, defrauding thousands of people

[ad_1] The Economic Offences Wing, Bhubaneswar arrested an accused on March 30 from Pune for running an online ponzi scheme and defrauding thousands of people, said an official.According to the officials of EOW, the accused identified as Vishal Sakharam Utkar, a resident of Latur, Maharashtra was arrested from Mundwa, Pune following a complaint filed by Dibyajyoti Kar, a resident of Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The complainant in his complaint alleged that he got himself added to a WhatsApp group through a person identifying as the Manager of a company namely GETSO which was doing the business of crypto mining. Complaint Dibyajyoti was induced to invest with the company for getting high returns like 6 pc daily on the invested amount apart from daily withdrawal facility. An account wa...
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Meta maps way to ‘kill’ online deception campaigns
17Mar By adminNo Comments
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Meta maps way to ‘kill’ online deception campaigns

[ad_1] Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.A paper authored by Meta's Ben Nimmo and Eric Hutchins details how to create a "kill chain" for targeting key links in deception operations aimed at duping people online. "Human stupidity is one of the great powers in the universe, but this kill chain is trying to identify all the different kinds of operations that can try to target human weakness," Nimmo told AFP. "The goal is to stop the attackers before ever reaching the target."The hacker community has long joked that there is no patch for human gullibility, such as computer users being duped into clicking on booby-trapped links or sharing login credentials at bogus websites.Advances in gene...
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Gang engaged in duping women via dating app busted in Noida, 6 Nigerian nationals held
6Mar By adminNo Comments
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Gang engaged in duping women via dating app busted in Noida, 6 Nigerian nationals held

[ad_1] The Noida police busted a gang involved in duping hundreds of women in the name of customs officials by befriending them through online dating app, here on Sunday. While investigating the matter the Police nabbed six Nigerian nationals including a woman, besides seizing three laptops, 17 mobiles, internet dongles, ₹40,860/- in cash, and three passports. The Police Commisionerate Gautam Buddh Nagar took to Twitter to inform the detailing of the arrest. "Gang doing fraud in the name of customs by befriending women through an online dating app was busted, 06 Nigerian accused including a woman arrested, 03 laptops, 17 mobiles, internet dongles, ₹40,860/- in cash, 03 passports, etc recovered from possession. Police Station Sector-20 Noida!" Detailing the modus operandi of th...
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Cyber criminals use PAN details of M S Dhoni, Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty for credit card fraud, 5 arrested
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Cyber criminals use PAN details of M S Dhoni, Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty for credit card fraud, 5 arrested

[ad_1] In a bizarre case of cyber fraud, a group of fraudsters allegedly procured PAN details of several Bollywood actors and cricketers from their GST Identification Numbers which are available online, and got credit cards issued in their names from Pune-based fintech startup 'One Card'. Some of the celebrities whose names and details were used by the fraudsters are Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Madhuri Dixit, Emraan Hashmi and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Shahadra Rohit Meena said. "Since investigation into the matter is underway, we cannot comment further on it," Meena told PTI. The company got wind of the fraud subsequently but not before the fraudsters used some of these cards to purchase products worth ₹21.32 lakh. It immediately alerte...
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Rs. 61000 STOLEN through loan scam on Instagram; how this woman lost her money
25Feb By adminNo Comments
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Rs. 61000 STOLEN through loan scam on Instagram; how this woman lost her money

[ad_1] Social media has turned into a green field for online fraud. In a shocking instance, Instagram Reels proved to be the ondoing of a woman restaurant owner from Worli-Koliwada in Mumbai. She was scammed out of over Rs. 61000 after she applied for a low-interest rate futures loan, which she found on Instagram Reels. As per a report by Hindustan Times, Rutali Kolge, approached the police on February 23 and lodged a report about the incident.On February 17, while searching for a loan to expand her business, she came across an advertisement on Instagram Reels. She clicked on the "Apply" button, which directed her to an online form to fill in her personal details. On the same day, she received a call from someone claiming to be Pankaj Singh Bhaduria, a representative of the finance com...
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Disappointed with police inaction, farmer takes on cybercriminal, recovers lakhs lost in fraud
20Feb By adminNo Comments
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Disappointed with police inaction, farmer takes on cybercriminal, recovers lakhs lost in fraud

[ad_1] 55-year-old Pawan Kumar Soni, a farmer based in Sri Ganganagar City in Rajasthan, became a victim of a cyber fraud when his 26-year-old son Harsh Vardhan opened a link from a phishing message that flashed on his mobile phone. Within minutes, more than Rs. 8 lakh was withdrawn from his account in four different transactions.Vardhan, who lives in Dwarka in Delhi, had his phone number registered with his father's account at the State Bank of India branch of Sri Ganganagar City. The message, which was delivered on his mobile at around 3.45 PM on Saturday, January 7, said, "Your account is blocked, please update your KYC." Harsh already had a YONO application but the moment he clicked on the link, another duplicate app downloaded on his phone."I thought that I should update my KYC on...
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78% Indians fail to differentiate between love letter written by ChatGPT, human: Survey
10Feb By adminNo Comments
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78% Indians fail to differentiate between love letter written by ChatGPT, human: Survey

[ad_1] Most Indians have been unable to differentiate between a love letter written by conversational artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT and that penned by a human, a global survey by McAfee said on Thursday. The survey also said 62 percent of Indian adults are planning to use AI to help write their love letters this Valentine's Day -- the highest out of all the countries surveyed, with 73 percent also using AI to boost their dating profiles. "With ChatGPT starting to infiltrate every aspect of our daily lives, 78 per cent of Indian people surveyed were unable to tell the difference between a love letter written by AI tool, ChatGPT, and one written by a human being," McAfee's Modern Love research report said. The company claims to have surveyed 5,000 people across nine countri...
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Safer Internet Day: CERT-In and Koo App promote cybersecurity awareness
7Feb By adminNo Comments
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Safer Internet Day: CERT-In and Koo App promote cybersecurity awareness

[ad_1] Cyber crime is rampant and hundreds of thousands of people are affected on a daily basis by some kind of fraud or the other. In 2022, India saw over 13 lakh cyberattack incidents, making cybersecurity a key concern of all sectors. However, it need not be so. All it needs is to adopt a safer way to surf the Internet. Raising awareness about this are the Government of India and messaging app Koo. In a joint effort to promote online safety, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the Government of India, and Koo have come together to raise awareness about cybersecurity attacks, frauds, and crimes on the occasion of Safer Internet Day observed every year on the first Tuesday in February 2023. The colla...
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