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UP Couple's Massive Scam: Age-Reversal Using "Israel-Made Time Machine"
A couple in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has duped dozens of elderly people of Rs 35 crore by promising to make them young through an "Israel-made time machine".
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Email Scams Are Getting More Personal – They Even Fool Cybersecurity Experts
Email scams are getting more personal, as scammers have begun targeting users with personalised messages. LinkedIn accounted for 52 percent of all phishing scams globally in Q1 2022, while data from Google Safe Browsing reveals there are now nearly 75 times as many phishing sites as there are malware sites. Con artists are using new, chilling tacti...
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Romance Crypto Scams Mooched Off Over $185 Million from Love-Seeking Americans in One Year: Report
Americans crypto investors lost $185 million (roughly Rs. 1,468 crore) between January 2021 and March 2022 to romance scams and over $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,942 crore) in total to other fraudulent activities, a report by BanklessTimes said.
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Lalu Yadav Returns To Patna After Three Years
Weathered by old age and ill-health, RJD president Lalu Yadav on Sunday returned to his home turf of Bihar from where imprisonment in fodder scam cases had kept him away for three years.
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Lalu Yadav Files Petition In High Court For Bail In 3 Fodder Scam Cases
Jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court for bail in three fodder scam cases on the ground of age and ailments.
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Lalu Prasad Files Bail Plea In 3 Fodder Scam Cases Citing Age, Illness
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad who is in jail on Tuesday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court for bail in three fodder scam cases on the ground of age and health issues.
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She Saved Herself From An Online Scam. Her Warning To Others Is Viral
In a day and age when many people rely on online transactions, Pune resident Pavithra Velpuri's now-viral Facebook post comes as a cautionary tale. She hopes sharing her experience will help others to be more cautious while making online transactions.
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Irregularities In Scheme For Children, Pankaja Munde Must Resign: AAP
Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde has been accused by the Maharashtra wing of the Aam Aadmi Party of nepotism and facilitating a scam in the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), a welfare programme run by the government which provides food, pre-school education, and primary healthcare to children under six year...
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Mira Road Call Centre Con: Insider Spills The Beans
Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.
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100, 200 and 500: Chhattisgarh's Welfare Beneficiaries Are World's Oldest
Women aged 100, 200, even 500 are listed as recipients of sewing machines and bicycles under welfare schemes in Chhattisgarh. The "miracle" could either be an error, or a massive scam waiting to be exposed.
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Pension of over 1,500 persons disbursed even after death
More than 1,500 persons in the district were getting old age pension even after their death, an official said today.
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Indicted General leaked documents about Army Chief's age
An Army probe into the leak of confidential documents on the age of Army chief General VK Singh has concluded that it was Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash who leaked the documents to stall his court martial in the Sukna land scam. The Army is now considering stricter procedures for document access.It was the Army Chief who had initiated the...
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UP Couple's Massive Scam: Age-Reversal Using "Israel-Made Time Machine"
A couple in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has duped dozens of elderly people of Rs 35 crore by promising to make them young through an "Israel-made time machine".
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Email Scams Are Getting More Personal – They Even Fool Cybersecurity Experts
Email scams are getting more personal, as scammers have begun targeting users with personalised messages. LinkedIn accounted for 52 percent of all phishing scams globally in Q1 2022, while data from Google Safe Browsing reveals there are now nearly 75 times as many phishing sites as there are malware sites. Con artists are using new, chilling tacti...
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Romance Crypto Scams Mooched Off Over $185 Million from Love-Seeking Americans in One Year: Report
Americans crypto investors lost $185 million (roughly Rs. 1,468 crore) between January 2021 and March 2022 to romance scams and over $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,942 crore) in total to other fraudulent activities, a report by BanklessTimes said.
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Lalu Yadav Returns To Patna After Three Years
Weathered by old age and ill-health, RJD president Lalu Yadav on Sunday returned to his home turf of Bihar from where imprisonment in fodder scam cases had kept him away for three years.
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Lalu Yadav Files Petition In High Court For Bail In 3 Fodder Scam Cases
Jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court for bail in three fodder scam cases on the ground of age and ailments.
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Lalu Prasad Files Bail Plea In 3 Fodder Scam Cases Citing Age, Illness
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad who is in jail on Tuesday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court for bail in three fodder scam cases on the ground of age and health issues.
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She Saved Herself From An Online Scam. Her Warning To Others Is Viral
In a day and age when many people rely on online transactions, Pune resident Pavithra Velpuri's now-viral Facebook post comes as a cautionary tale. She hopes sharing her experience will help others to be more cautious while making online transactions.
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Irregularities In Scheme For Children, Pankaja Munde Must Resign: AAP
Maharashtra's Women and Child Development Minister Pankaja Munde has been accused by the Maharashtra wing of the Aam Aadmi Party of nepotism and facilitating a scam in the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), a welfare programme run by the government which provides food, pre-school education, and primary healthcare to children under six year...
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Mira Road Call Centre Con: Insider Spills The Beans
Just one month into his well-paying job, Rakesh (name changed) decided to quit. The reason, he says, was that he found out that he was really being used to cheat aged American citizens and extort money from them by pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service.
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100, 200 and 500: Chhattisgarh's Welfare Beneficiaries Are World's Oldest
Women aged 100, 200, even 500 are listed as recipients of sewing machines and bicycles under welfare schemes in Chhattisgarh. The "miracle" could either be an error, or a massive scam waiting to be exposed.
-
Pension of over 1,500 persons disbursed even after death
More than 1,500 persons in the district were getting old age pension even after their death, an official said today.
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Indicted General leaked documents about Army Chief's age
An Army probe into the leak of confidential documents on the age of Army chief General VK Singh has concluded that it was Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash who leaked the documents to stall his court martial in the Sukna land scam. The Army is now considering stricter procedures for document access.It was the Army Chief who had initiated the...
