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TopicCryptoscam

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As CBI probes Rs 6,600-cr crypto ‘scam’, a look at the 2018 case & its impact on Maharashtra polls

CBI has summoned cyber expert Gaurav Mehta, whose name came up after ex-IPS officer Ravindranath Patil accused Supriya Sule & Nana Patole of using scam funds to finance poll campaign.

As Sam Bankman-Fried trial begins, Aditya Bhardwaj on how he was ‘on the inside & still duped’

The Indian-origin engineer worked closely with fallen crypto king Bankman-Fried who ran FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, and lost most of his life savings.

How scammers use psychology to pull off internet cons – ‘pig butchering’ to fake app alerts

These scams all have one thing in common – they insidiously take advantage of people’s cognitive biases and psychological blind spots.

Shunned as a mega crypto ‘fraudster’, Sam Bankman-Fried now only has a dog to defend him

The once-celebrated young investor with estimated worth of $26 bn, is now 'nearly penniless & friendless' and going down in history for besmirching reputation of struggling crypto industry.

‘Scammers’ now prowl on Instagram. Crypto advice can be from hacked accounts of friends, known circles

Compromised account is used to target other victims without knowledge of the user. Scammers keep deleting accounts or changing name of Instagram handles, says a police officer.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.