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TopicCyber fraud

Topic: cyber fraud

Amid strained India-Canada relations, cyber scammers have a free run

Cyber fraud investigations targeting senior Canadian citizens have been affected amid non-cooperation, it is learnt. Requests made under Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty are pending.

Chinese, Laos officials are shielding East Asian crime empires. Time to act now

For criminal cartels of all kinds, the casino cities on China’s peripheries offer security and immunity. In Kings Romans Casino, prison-like dormitories house the cyber-slaves.

Stock market frauds booming in India. How kingpins holed up in Cambodia & Dubai bait & scam investors

Scams are well oiled with swindlers manipulating & looting victims for months. Probe mostly hit dead end as those arrested are brokers & mule account holders, say cops.

Himachal man arrested for posing as woman in sex chat groups, swindling Rs 13 lakh

An addict of online gaming & adult chatting, Mandi resident Deepak Saini posed as ‘Shruti Sharma’ and preyed emotionally on complainant who paid him money, police say.

US sanctions 3 Chinese nationals, 3 Thai entities over cyber fraud linked to Covid aid, bomb threats

US Treasury Department says a malicious botnet service compromised around 19 million IP addresses & facilitated submission of fraudulent applications causing loss of billions of dollars.

Cyber watchdog blocks 1,000+ Skype IDs used by cross-border scammers impersonating as govt officials

Grifters forced people to extort money by threatening ‘police action’ for cooked-up crimes, says Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre.

‘Lucrative deals, stolen OTPs’ — Delhi Police IFSO unit busts interstate racket of ‘online fraudsters’

Victims were lured by ads posted in platforms such as BigBasket, DMart & Blinkit, say police. Once they clicked on links sent on mobiles, scammers stole OTPs to siphon off money.

‘Tiger skin to CBI impersonation’, a social activist was ‘nearly’ duped. Then started asking questions

The activist claims ‘scamsters’ allegedly posed as Mumbai Police & CBI officers to intimidate her into paying money. Police say this isn’t an isolated case.

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.

Govt uses AI to weed out mobile connections based on fake IDs, 37 lakh connections culled so far

Highest number of SIMs were culled in Bengal (over 12 L), followed by Haryana (over 5 L). A person had taken 5,300 connections using same image with different names, says minister.

On Camera

Age-gap romances are tricky in India. Here’s how Bollywood navigates them

Cheeni Kum challenged many conventions. It didn’t shy away from addressing concerns of a man in his sixties, from ‘keeping up’ with his much younger partner.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.