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By Waquar Hasan In February this year, Mohammed Yusuf Alam, a labourer in Hyderabad, stumbled upon an advertisement about an interest-free loan while scrolling on Instagram. A form to apply for the loan was attached to the ad. He applied for a loan of one lakh rupees intending to build a house back in Godda district in Jharkhand from where he hails. “I got a call from someone. Then I was contacted through WhatsApp. They asked for fee charges of 1,750 rupees,” he said. Over the next few days Alam got two calls asking him to pay 3,200 rupees. “This is how it continued till they swindled around 4...
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By Hera Rizwan Sunil Dutt Dubey, Deputy Superintendent of Police from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh has been spending a lot of time answering calls from people who tell him that they have been scammed. Ironically, the people who have been duped find Dubey after searching for the scamster's photo. Dubey's photo has been misused by several scammers who pretend to be a cop on their WhatsApp profile. "Half of my days are spent responding to calls from people who were either scammed or narrowly escaped a scam. Some fraudsters execute FedEx scams, while others demand bribes in fabricated cases to intimid...
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Deepfake fraudulent identity verification attempts have surged by 3,000% over the past year, pointing to an emerging threat as new ways of financial scams emerge. Using false or stolen identity is the number one way of fraudulently getting into a bank account, and victims across the globe are being deprived of billions of their own hard-earned cash. Now, scammers are fooling people using the new technology of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can imitate people's voices or appearances to get access to their banks accounts. How do you know who to believe?A recent example of dee...
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By Archis Chowdhury Several deepfake videos were found being promoted on Facebook ads, which falsely portrayed ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund Managing Director Nimesh Shah promising stock recommendations for 2024. BOOM found strong evidence suggesting that these videos were fabricated using a voice cloning software. Furthermore, ICICI Prudential AMC spokesperson confirmed to us that no such stock recommendation promises were made by Shah, as seen in the Facebook videos, and that they were deceptively edited from an interview he gave to the Outlook Magazine. In the deepfake video, which has been ...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Patna, BIHAR— “Do you want to work in Pregnancy Job Service?” The person at the other end of the call asked this reporter. The phone number was listed on a Facebook page called All India Pregnant Job Service. For the next two to three minutes, the operator informed this reporter in detail about the job and the huge earnings he could potentially receive. The job required registration to be done, for which a copy of their Aadhar card, a photo and 500 rupees had to be sent. Elaborating on what was on offer, the operator said 5 lakh rupees will be given in advance as soon as the...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said. Kai Zhuang, age 17, was reported missing on Thursday after his parents in China told officials at his host high school in Riverdale, Utah that he appeared to have been kidnapped and a ransom had been requested. The case followed a typical pattern for cyber kidnapping, in which "kidnappers" tell a victim to isolate and provide pictures of oneself as if being held captive --...
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By Saurabh Chauhan Jagdish Sharma, a sub-inspector from Himachal Pradesh is not a rookie. He knows about frauds and scams all too well. If anyone shouldn’t have been duped in a cryptocurrency fraud, it's him, said his colleagues, as Sharma is known to be an excellent investigator. Sharma's initial reluctance to invest in the cryptocurrency that his colleagues told him about was surpassed by his desire to make quick bucks. So in 2020, he first invested 50,000 rupees; it doubled. The next year he invested 5 lakh rupees. “Since people around me were making good money, I invested 5 lakh rupees mor...
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By Hera Rizwan According to a recent study by The Money Mongers, a collective of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and researchers, from 2011 to 2023, cryptocurrency scams have seen a jump of 1053 times, rising from $1.79 million to $1.89 billion. Cryptocurrency or the virtual decentralised currency, has revolutionised the financial world, attracting investors and enthusiasts from all walks of life. Nonetheless, as these digital assets gain more widespread appeal, opportunistic scammers have identified fresh avenues to deceive gullible individuals. Crypto investment frauds now pose a substantial worr...
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By Umesh Kumar Ray Earlier this year, Urmila Kumari, a resident of Nawada district in Bihar, lost 57,900 rupees to a scam where her fingerprints were cloned. Kumari was able to locate the receiver, who admitted to his crime and promised to return the scammed money, pleading her to not file an FIR. It’s not just Kumari. The Bihar police is tired of frauds through the AePS (Aadhaar Enabled Payment System). In July this year, the Nawada police formed a special investigating team (SIT) to arrest two people and recovered 512 cloned thumb impressions made of plastic- like substances. A scam has been...
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By Archis Chowdhury The Supreme Court issued a public alert on Thursday, to warn people of phishing attack through a fake website, impersonating the actual website of the apex court. Phishing refers to a fraudulent attempt at retrieving sensitive information by impersonating official websites or apps, or through delivery of malware into targeted systems. According to the public notice, two malicious URLs - https://cbins.scigv.com/ (archive) and https://cbins.scigv.com/offence (archive) - were being used to solicit sensitive information from users. Also Read:How EdTech Companies Get Away With E...
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