Fake E-mails

The BCCI has received over 600 e-mail applications for the five-member selection panel and a some of them have come from fake ids claiming to be Tendulkar, Dhoni, Sehwag and Inzamam.

Actor Hrithik Roshan today arrived at the office of the Mumbai Police Commissioner to record his statement with the Crime Branch in connection with his 2016 complaint that someone impersonating him had been emailing actor Kangana Ranaut from a bogus mail id.

A case has been filed against a 16-year-old boy from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh has been for allegedly sending a hoax e-mail to Mumbai Police, claiming that a bomb was set to go off at Bollywood actor Salman Khan's home in suburban Bandra, officials said on Sunday.

The CBI has registered a case against top officials of a public sector helicopter service company on the basis of a Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) complaint that they had transferred Rs 1.85 crore to a fake bank account in Indonesia instead of a Russian firm contracted for servicing chopper engines in 2016. The objective of the probe is to chec...

A senior police officer from cyber police station said, "We are investigating the matter. Hrithik had given information about impostor conversing through the e-mail ID hroshan@email.com. We traced the IP address of the ID, and got location of a place in America

Echoing warning messages from other financial institutions, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday cautioned against fictitious e-mails in his or the RBI's name, demanding money, and asked the public not to fall victim to such frauds.

Hrithik's lawyer Dipesh Mehta said, "We have complained to Rakesh Maria (Mumbai Police Commissioner) ji. We have full confidence in the police. I am sure the accused will soon be booked and arrested."

Impersonation possibilites on Facebook

Three members of an international gang of conmen, including a Nigerian, have been arrested for allegedly trying to cheat a man here by sending him fake e-mail messages and asking him to pay money to be able to receive a huge lottery amount, police said on Sunday.

Concerned over misuse of Finance Ministry's name by unscrupulous elements, the government has cautioned the public against falling prey to bogus e-mails that promise huge prize money on payment of security deposits."The general public is hereby advised not to take cognisance of any such letter or e-mail received from unscrupulous persons claiming t...

If you are an MBA student, be careful the next time you get a job offer by email. It might be a fake offer designed to lighten your pocket. Bogus offer letters from reputed Indian companies are landing in the inboxes of MBA students in the city. More than a dozen of MBA students from Sinhagad Institute have got such fake mails from companies like T...

It looked like an innocent e-mail Christmas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before Christmas was a ruse by cybercriminals to steal documents and other data from law enforcement, military and government workers, particularly those involved in computer crime investigations.Analysts who have studied the malicious...

Phishing fiends struck again and this time their victim is Bangalore's M K Shankarlinge Gowda, Secretary, State Transport department. Gowda's e-mail was hacked into and random mails were sent to his contact list seeking financial assistance.

The BCCI has received over 600 e-mail applications for the five-member selection panel and a some of them have come from fake ids claiming to be Tendulkar, Dhoni, Sehwag and Inzamam.

Actor Hrithik Roshan today arrived at the office of the Mumbai Police Commissioner to record his statement with the Crime Branch in connection with his 2016 complaint that someone impersonating him had been emailing actor Kangana Ranaut from a bogus mail id.

A case has been filed against a 16-year-old boy from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh has been for allegedly sending a hoax e-mail to Mumbai Police, claiming that a bomb was set to go off at Bollywood actor Salman Khan's home in suburban Bandra, officials said on Sunday.

The CBI has registered a case against top officials of a public sector helicopter service company on the basis of a Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) complaint that they had transferred Rs 1.85 crore to a fake bank account in Indonesia instead of a Russian firm contracted for servicing chopper engines in 2016. The objective of the probe is to chec...

A senior police officer from cyber police station said, "We are investigating the matter. Hrithik had given information about impostor conversing through the e-mail ID hroshan@email.com. We traced the IP address of the ID, and got location of a place in America

Echoing warning messages from other financial institutions, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday cautioned against fictitious e-mails in his or the RBI's name, demanding money, and asked the public not to fall victim to such frauds.

Hrithik's lawyer Dipesh Mehta said, "We have complained to Rakesh Maria (Mumbai Police Commissioner) ji. We have full confidence in the police. I am sure the accused will soon be booked and arrested."

Impersonation possibilites on Facebook

Three members of an international gang of conmen, including a Nigerian, have been arrested for allegedly trying to cheat a man here by sending him fake e-mail messages and asking him to pay money to be able to receive a huge lottery amount, police said on Sunday.

Concerned over misuse of Finance Ministry's name by unscrupulous elements, the government has cautioned the public against falling prey to bogus e-mails that promise huge prize money on payment of security deposits."The general public is hereby advised not to take cognisance of any such letter or e-mail received from unscrupulous persons claiming t...

If you are an MBA student, be careful the next time you get a job offer by email. It might be a fake offer designed to lighten your pocket. Bogus offer letters from reputed Indian companies are landing in the inboxes of MBA students in the city. More than a dozen of MBA students from Sinhagad Institute have got such fake mails from companies like T...

It looked like an innocent e-mail Christmas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before Christmas was a ruse by cybercriminals to steal documents and other data from law enforcement, military and government workers, particularly those involved in computer crime investigations.Analysts who have studied the malicious...

Phishing fiends struck again and this time their victim is Bangalore's M K Shankarlinge Gowda, Secretary, State Transport department. Gowda's e-mail was hacked into and random mails were sent to his contact list seeking financial assistance.