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UPI fraud to sextortion, shocking rise in Cybercrime! Know how HP is dealing with this threat
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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UPI fraud to sextortion, shocking rise in Cybercrime! Know how HP is dealing with this threat

[ad_1] India is being applauded for following a path of digitalization and introducing the revolutionary digital payment mode UPI. However, digitalization has also led to some serious UPI fraud and crimes. In a concerning trend, Himachal Pradesh has seen a shocking surge in cybercrime complaints. Officials have reported at least one complaint every hour which includes cases of UPI fraud, job fraud, sextortion, and blackmailing. Know what officials have reported about these cybercrime cases.Staggering surge in cybercrimeAccording to a report by PTI, from January to October 2022, the state recorded 4,593 complaints, which escalated to a startling 8,152 in the same period in 2023. Financial frauds, social networking issues, and miscellaneous complaints witnessed a 77% increase, with Mandi,...
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FBI: Steep climb in teens targeted by online ‘sextortion’
21Dec By adminNo Comments
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FBI: Steep climb in teens targeted by online ‘sextortion’

[ad_1] The FBI sounded the alarm Monday about an explosive increase in teenage boys being targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending sexually explicit pictures. The FBI sounded the alarm Monday about an explosive increase in teenage boys being targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending sexually explicit pictures. At least 3,000 children, mostly teenage boys, have been victims of the schemes that are connected to more than a dozen suicides this year, a scale that U.S. authorities have not seen before, Justice Department officials said. Many think they are chatting online with kids around their own age but are quickly manipulated into sending explicit pictures and then blackmailed for money with threats to release the images, ...
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Scam ALERT: Do NOT take video calls from contacts you just met on dating apps, Serious trouble ahead
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Scam ALERT: Do NOT take video calls from contacts you just met on dating apps, Serious trouble ahead

[ad_1] A new kind of scam is engaging people into a video call and using sextortion to loot money. Know all details. If you engage in a lot of online dating, you need to beware of this. A new kind of scam is going around, wherein people fall prey to sextortion. The malicious people will often end up giving you a video call and once you accept it, you will see the person on the other side stripping their clothes and recording your reaction at the same time. Even if you disconnect the call, the scamster then uses the video for extortion, asking for high amounts of money in lieu of sparing it from sharing.Several incidents reported on the internet have highlighted this lately. Most of the time, the scamsters target male users and use a woman on the other side to show the stripping. Since...
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Uptick in ‘sextortion’ cases with cyber fraudsters on prowl; over 1400 cases in Pune
16Oct By adminNo Comments
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Uptick in ‘sextortion’ cases with cyber fraudsters on prowl; over 1400 cases in Pune

[ad_1] A 19-year-old commerce student from Dattawadi in Pune was blackmailed by online fraudsters, who threatened to make his nude photos public. He fell prey to the threats and paid ₹4,500 to them, but ultimately ended his life on September 28 as he could not sustain the pressure. Another man, a 22-year-old student from Dhankawadi area of the city, also killed himself recently after he was harassed and blackmailed by cyber criminals, who threatened that they would share his nude video with his contacts on social media if he did not cough up money. These are just a couple of examples from the growing list of 'sextortion' cases that the lurking cyber criminals are indulging in by using the ever-expanding social media space to their advantage. In Pune city alone, more than 1,400 sextort...
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