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Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath warns of FedEx and Blue Dart scam
25Jun By adminNo Comments
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Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath warns of FedEx and Blue Dart scam

[ad_1] Nithin Kamath, the co-founder of Zerodha, a prominent retail brokerage firm, has issued a warning to the public regarding a "new scam involving FedEx, Blue Dart, and other courier companies." He expressed concern over scammers who are posing as officials from the CBI and crime branch to deceive unsuspecting individuals with fabricated cases. Sharing the incident on Twitter, Kamath recounted an encounter involving a person claiming to be a FedEx representative.Kamath tweeted, "There's a new scam in the name of FedEx, Blue Dart, and other courier companies that you need to be aware of. A colleague received a call from an individual posing as a FedEx representative, stating that a package had been confiscated by the police due to the discovery of drugs." According to Kamath, his col...
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How an iPhone 14 Pro Max proved unlucky for this man
18Jun By adminNo Comments
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How an iPhone 14 Pro Max proved unlucky for this man

[ad_1] A 23-year-old man, who runs a furniture business, fell victim to an online scam involving a lucky draw for the iPhone 14 Pro Max and a lottery worth Rs. 36 lakh. As a result, he lost Rs. 4.26 lakh in a whopping 34 transactions approximately.The victim had kept the money in his bank account for his sister's wedding when he received a WhatsApp message notifying him that he had won a lucky draw prize conducted by an electronic shop. According to the message, his parcel containing an iPhone 14 Pro Max had been generated. Trusting the message, he contacted the WhatsApp number that was provided. The fraudsters behind the scam instructed him to pay taxes in order to claim the prize. For some reason, believing their false claims, the victim actually made 34 transactions totaling Rs. 4.26...
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WhatsApp Scam alert! Woman tricked out of Rs. 4.3 lakh in YouTube ‘likes’ fraud
22May By adminNo Comments
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WhatsApp Scam alert! Woman tricked out of Rs. 4.3 lakh in YouTube ‘likes’ fraud

[ad_1] WhatsApp scams are rising phenomenally with cyber fraudsters taking advantage of gullible Internet users. Recently, a number of cases have emerged where people have fallen prey to a 'part-time job offer' scam on WhatsApp. In the latest such shocking incident, a woman from Noida has been duped of Rs. 4.38 Lakh in a 'YouTube likes' scam. As per a report by Times Now, the woman from Sector 61 in Uttar Pradesh's Noida informed that she had received a WhatsApp message, which claimed to offer her a part-time job.WhatsApp scam for ‘part-time job'After receiving the malicious message on WhatsApp along with a contact number, she rushed to call. The fraudster on the other side offered her a part-time job where she just asked to like, comment, and share some of the YouTube videos. These vid...
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Four held for online shopping fraud in Delhi
27Apr By adminNo Comments
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Four held for online shopping fraud in Delhi

[ad_1] Delhi Police said on Wednesday they have arrested four persons allegedly involved in online shopping fraud to the tune of ₹8 lakh using an e-commerce platform. Police said the matter came to light after a Shahdara trader registered a complaint with them. The trader had placed an order for a photocopy machine on INDIAMART portal and a person, who introduced himself as Anshul Aggarwal, a sales manager of a firm named Balaji Enterprises, reached out to him assuring he can deliver the machine, police said. Aggarwal asked the trader to transfer an amount of ₹3.21 lakh to his bank account to get the machine but after the payment he stopped taking phone calls from the trader, they said. The accused neither delivered the purchased item nor returned the money, a senior police officer ...
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Class 3-pass man held for Rs. 1.68 cr cyber fraud: UP police
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Class 3-pass man held for Rs. 1.68 cr cyber fraud: UP police

[ad_1] A 38-year-old man with formal education till Class 3 has been arrested by Uttar Pradesh's Cyber Crime police over Rs. 1.68 crore fraud with a businessman on the pretext of trade with a Canadian firm, officials said on Thursday.The fraudster used Facebook to network with gullible people associated with pharmaceutical productions and represented himself as a middle-man who lured them with good monetary returns, they said. The accused was arrested from Ballia district by a team of Cyber Crime police station, Noida, which was investigating the case lodged over the complaint of the businessman, who lives in Omaxe NRI City in Greater Noida in February 2021, according to the police. “Accused Durga Prasad Mishra alias Rajeet Mishra, along with his partners, had posed as a middle-man for ...
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Two duped of Rs. 57 lakh in online fraud
13Apr By adminNo Comments
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Two duped of Rs. 57 lakh in online fraud

[ad_1] Two persons, including a businessman, were collectively duped of ₹57 lakh in separate cases of online fraud, police said on Wednesday.While in the first case a businessman was allegedly duped of ₹42 lakh by his social media friend over a business proposal, in the second, a woman was duped of ₹15 lakh after she clicked on a link while searching for the customer care number of a courier company, they said. According to the first FIR, a proprietor named Sunil Arora was defrauded of ₹42 lakh by one Shreya Joshi with whom he got in touch on Instagram in December last year. "Shreya Joshi offered me a business proposal for saffron cumin oil and saffron powder supply to her own company in the USA. She asked me to contact Riya Sharma, proprietor of Sharma Product from Mumbai to procur...
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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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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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Woman bank employee in Gurugram duped of ₹3 lakh over WhatsApp call
6Feb By adminNo Comments
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Woman bank employee in Gurugram duped of ₹3 lakh over WhatsApp call

[ad_1] A woman bank employee was duped of ₹3 lakh after a fraudster tricked her into believing that she was sending the money to a friend in distress, the Gurugram police said on Friday. The woman, a resident of Sector 43 of Gurugram, said she received a WhatsApp call Thursday from a number which had the display picture of her friend. "The audio was not clear on the WhatsApp call and soon after I got a message from his side that a tragedy had happened in his house and he needed monetary help. He sent two UPI IDs and asked me to transfer money. I transferred a total of ₹3 lakh in six transactions from my own account and that of my brother and sister," she said in her complaint. She realised that she had been duped when she made a normal call on his friend's number later and was...
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