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Bitcoin fraud: In online scam, woman loses whopping Rs. 26.88 lakh; know how to stay safe

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Bitcoin fraud: In online scam, woman loses whopping Rs. 26.88 lakh; know how to stay safe

[ad_1] Bitcoin fraud: Cryptocurrency market is at best a volatile arena and at worst, often, it a fraudsters' paradise that stretches well beyond the segment itself and spans the wider web where fraudsters deploy ingenious methodologies to entrap and fleece users of their money via online scams. Having said that, Bitcoin itself has been doing rather well in recent months, having hit rock bottom and then climbing back up. Bloomberg reports that Bitcoin price rose 3% to break above $45,000 on January 2 and that was the for the first time since April 2022. Yes, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency started 2024 with a bang. Bitcoin rose to touch a 21-month high of $45,386 earlier in the day. Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, was 1% higher at $2,376. U-t...

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...

Cyber fraud: TV journalist duped by ‘foreigner’ contacted through dating app

[ad_1] A journalist has alleged cyber fraud with her by a "Europe-based person" with whom she got connected through an online dating app, prompting the Noida police to launch an investigation into the case, officials said on Thursday. The journalist (39) working with a TV news channel here claimed she lost ₹66,000 which she had to pay to the “customs office” in Mumbai to help the suspect whose "euro one lakh cash" got seized upon landing in India, they said. The suspect identified himself as Manvik Bukka, a plastic surgeon who was born in Pune but is now based in the Netherlands. “We first came in contact on January 16, 2023 on the Bumble dating app. We started chatting and he also introduced me over the phone to his mother. He left on January 31, 2023 from Amsterdam and landed...