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TopicScammers

Topic: scammers

Nigeria and Ghana are training people to run global scams. US has lost billions to them

Hustle kingdom fraudsters sometimes justify their actions as seeking restitution for past injustices, such as the slave trade, economic exploitation and colonialism.

How scammers used public police database ZIPNET to dupe parents of missing kids, theft victims

Information & contact details of complainant are uploaded on ZIPNET once case is registered. Delhi Police busted two men this month who used this data to dupe vulnerable people.

Deepfake or not? How scammers used ‘morphed’ video of retd IPS officer to ‘blackmail’ Ghaziabad man

According to police, it is too early to call it a deepfake since forensic analysis of video is yet to be done. FIR has been lodged & police are in touch with social media companies.

How West Delhi brothers duped 20,000 Americans in $10m scam. US-based aunt & Russian software helped

A poky call centre was the base of a multimillion ‘tech support scam’ that targeted senior citizens in North America for nearly a decade — until FBI and Delhi Police cracked down.

‘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.

On Camera

Game on in Gujarat — Ahmedabad is building India’s new sports economy

The massive success of the IPL is a watershed moment in Indian sports. It proved that sports could be an incredibly profitable commercial venture. The glamour, the glitz, and the spectacle of it didn’t go unnoticed.

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.