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People With Brain Injuries Have A High Risk Of Romance Scams: Report
Romance scams - where scammers create fake identities and use dating or friendship to get your trust and money - cost Australians A$201 million last year.
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John Stonehouse: British Politician Who Faked His Death
Drawing inspiration from the novel The Day of the Jackal, Stonehouse stole the identities of two dead men, Joseph Markham and Donald Mildoon.
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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
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Former Trainee IAS Puja Khedkar's Anticipatory Bail Plea Rejected
A Delhi court has denied anticipatory bail to Puja Khedkar, the ex-trainee IAS officer who lied about visual and mental disabilities, and faked her identity, to pass the Civil Services entrance exam.
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Meta Removes 63,000 Accounts Involved In "Sextortion" Scams From Nigeria
They targeted primarily adult men in the US and used fake accounts to mask their identities Meta said in a statement
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UPSC Cracks Down, Says Puja Khedkar Faked Identity, Parents' Name, Address
The UPSC has issued a notice to cancel selection of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, who was being investigated for lying about visual and mental disabilities to clear the Civil Services entrance examination.
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Con Artist Poses As Woman, RBI Official, Dupes Techie Of Rs 1.39 Crore
A software engineer was taken for a ride by a 33-year-old con artist who utilised his mimicry skills to assume different fake identities, including a potential bride, an Income Tax judge and an RBI official, to cheat him of Rs 1.39 crore, police said
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Elon Musk Deepfake Videos Targeting Crypto Investors Displayed on Channel Seven Following YouTube Hack
Elon Musk’s popularity in the crypto circle is becoming a dangerous threat for crypto investors, especially for ones who take the billionaire’s market commentary rather seriously. In a fresh incident, Musk’s identity was misused to promote a fake crypto scheme on the YouTube channel of Australia’s Channel Seven .
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Explained: Manipur's Discreet 'War' Against Fake Aadhaar, Voter ID Gangs
A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.
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Similar Strangers With Same Name, Birthday Given Same ID In Japan
A foreign resident of Japan unwittingly lived under a fake identity for six months until it came to light that he had been mixed up with an uncannily similar stranger.
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Fake Identities, Pay In Cash: How Bengaluru Cafe Blast Accused Evaded Cops
The NIA has detained two key suspects in the Rameswaram Cafe blast case after tracing their movements across multiple states.
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Vidya Balan Files Police Complaint Against Fake Instagram Account Extorting Money In Her Name
According to Mumbai police, an unknown person who created an identical Instagram ID asked people for money by assuring them of jobs
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Google Sues Scammers Over Fake Bard AI Chatbot That Downloads Malware
Alphabet’s Google is suing five unidentified scammers who tricked people looking for Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard into downloading malware onto their computers. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, Google claimed the scammers set up social media accounts encouraging people to download a fake version of Bar...
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Man Kills Beggar To Fake His Death For Rs 80 Lakh Insurance, Arrested 17 Years Later
A 39-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested from Ahmedabad, where he had been residing by assuming a new identity for the last 17 years after allegedly killing a beggar with the help of his family members in order to fake his own death.
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An Affair, Then 2 Murders To Hide One: Ex Navyman Arrested For 2004 Crimes
A former Navy employee, who had been living under a false identity after faking his death, has been arrested for allegedly choking a man to death and setting two others on fire nearly 20 years back.
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People With Brain Injuries Have A High Risk Of Romance Scams: Report
Romance scams - where scammers create fake identities and use dating or friendship to get your trust and money - cost Australians A$201 million last year.
-
John Stonehouse: British Politician Who Faked His Death
Drawing inspiration from the novel The Day of the Jackal, Stonehouse stole the identities of two dead men, Joseph Markham and Donald Mildoon.
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Meta Testing Facial Recognition to Spot Scam Ads That Use Celebrity Images, Faster Identity Verification
Meta announced testing facial recognition technology to detect scam ads and assist users in faster account recovery on Monday. The social media giant is specifically targeting “celeb-bait” ad scams, where scammers use images of celebrities and public figures to lure users into interacting with the ad and clicking malicious links.
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Former Trainee IAS Puja Khedkar's Anticipatory Bail Plea Rejected
A Delhi court has denied anticipatory bail to Puja Khedkar, the ex-trainee IAS officer who lied about visual and mental disabilities, and faked her identity, to pass the Civil Services entrance exam.
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Meta Removes 63,000 Accounts Involved In "Sextortion" Scams From Nigeria
They targeted primarily adult men in the US and used fake accounts to mask their identities Meta said in a statement
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UPSC Cracks Down, Says Puja Khedkar Faked Identity, Parents' Name, Address
The UPSC has issued a notice to cancel selection of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, who was being investigated for lying about visual and mental disabilities to clear the Civil Services entrance examination.
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Con Artist Poses As Woman, RBI Official, Dupes Techie Of Rs 1.39 Crore
A software engineer was taken for a ride by a 33-year-old con artist who utilised his mimicry skills to assume different fake identities, including a potential bride, an Income Tax judge and an RBI official, to cheat him of Rs 1.39 crore, police said
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Elon Musk Deepfake Videos Targeting Crypto Investors Displayed on Channel Seven Following YouTube Hack
Elon Musk’s popularity in the crypto circle is becoming a dangerous threat for crypto investors, especially for ones who take the billionaire’s market commentary rather seriously. In a fresh incident, Musk’s identity was misused to promote a fake crypto scheme on the YouTube channel of Australia’s Channel Seven .
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Explained: Manipur's Discreet 'War' Against Fake Aadhaar, Voter ID Gangs
A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.
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Similar Strangers With Same Name, Birthday Given Same ID In Japan
A foreign resident of Japan unwittingly lived under a fake identity for six months until it came to light that he had been mixed up with an uncannily similar stranger.
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Fake Identities, Pay In Cash: How Bengaluru Cafe Blast Accused Evaded Cops
The NIA has detained two key suspects in the Rameswaram Cafe blast case after tracing their movements across multiple states.
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Vidya Balan Files Police Complaint Against Fake Instagram Account Extorting Money In Her Name
According to Mumbai police, an unknown person who created an identical Instagram ID asked people for money by assuring them of jobs
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Google Sues Scammers Over Fake Bard AI Chatbot That Downloads Malware
Alphabet’s Google is suing five unidentified scammers who tricked people looking for Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard into downloading malware onto their computers. In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, Google claimed the scammers set up social media accounts encouraging people to download a fake version of Bar...
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Man Kills Beggar To Fake His Death For Rs 80 Lakh Insurance, Arrested 17 Years Later
A 39-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested from Ahmedabad, where he had been residing by assuming a new identity for the last 17 years after allegedly killing a beggar with the help of his family members in order to fake his own death.
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An Affair, Then 2 Murders To Hide One: Ex Navyman Arrested For 2004 Crimes
A former Navy employee, who had been living under a false identity after faking his death, has been arrested for allegedly choking a man to death and setting two others on fire nearly 20 years back.
