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Lost Money In Online Scam? RBI Says You Could Get Up to Rs 25,000 Back Soon
RBI's New Digital Fraud Rules From January 2027: RBI's new framework can provide compensation of up to Rs 25,000 to victims of frauds.
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Google Partners With FBI, Carriers to Fight AI-Powered Scam Network Linked to Millions of Fraud Texts
Google has filed a lawsuit against Outsider Enterprise, a cybercrime network it alleges used AI-powered phishing tools to run large-scale scam campaigns through fraudulent text messages. The company said the operation was linked to more than one million malicious URLs, thousands of fake websites and hundreds of thousands of victims. Google is worki...
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'85% Coverage': RBI Issues Draft Digital Fraud Compensation Guidelines
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday released draft guidelines for a compensation scheme aimed at protecting customers from digital fraud, offering coverage for up to 85% of the lost amount or a maximum of 25,000 rupees ($271.98).
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Top Court Directs Centre To Frame SOP To Deal With 'Digital Arrest' Scams
The Supreme Court on Monday described the siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore by digital frauds as absolute "robbery or dacoity" and asked the Centre to draft a standard operating procedure in consultation with stakeholders like the RBI, banks.
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Scamsters Use AI To Clone Cousin's Voice, Dupe Indore Teacher Of Rs 1 lakh
It sounded exactly like her cousin. The tone, the urgency, even the familiar way he spoke. But the voice on the phone was not her cousin's, it was generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
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Rate Of Digital Frauds Rising Since July: RBI Deputy Governor
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar on Friday said that the incidence of digital frauds has been rising since July this year.
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"Hope My Story Serves As Warning": Ex-Banker Loses Rs 23 Crore In Digital Arrest
A 78-year-old former banker who lost his life's savings, a whopping Rs 23 crore, to a fake "digital arrest," hopes his loss will serve as a warning to others.
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105 Indians Arrested In Cyber Scam Raids In Cambodia
The Indian Government is in talks with the Cambodian authorities to bring back its citizens arrested on a foreign land.
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86-Year-Old Mumbai Woman Loses Over Rs 20 Crore To "Digital Arrest" Fraud
An 86-year-old woman had received a call from a man, who claimed to be a CBI officer, and told her that based on her Aadhaar card, a bank account was opened which was used for money laundering.
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Bengaluru Techie Loses Rs 11.8 Crore After "Digital Arrest"
A 39-year-old software engineer became a victim to a "digital arrest" scam and lost Rs 11.8 crore when fraudsters impersonating police officials claimed that his Aadhaar card was being misused to open bank accounts for money laundering, police said.
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Centre Blocks 59,000 WhatsApp Accounts Used For Digital Fraud
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has identified and blocked more than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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Google buys Spider.io to weed out online advertising fraud
With Spider.io's tech, Google says it hopes to "weed out bad actors and improve the entire digital ecosystem."
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Lost Money In Online Scam? RBI Says You Could Get Up to Rs 25,000 Back Soon
RBI's New Digital Fraud Rules From January 2027: RBI's new framework can provide compensation of up to Rs 25,000 to victims of frauds.
-
Google Partners With FBI, Carriers to Fight AI-Powered Scam Network Linked to Millions of Fraud Texts
Google has filed a lawsuit against Outsider Enterprise, a cybercrime network it alleges used AI-powered phishing tools to run large-scale scam campaigns through fraudulent text messages. The company said the operation was linked to more than one million malicious URLs, thousands of fake websites and hundreds of thousands of victims. Google is worki...
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'85% Coverage': RBI Issues Draft Digital Fraud Compensation Guidelines
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday released draft guidelines for a compensation scheme aimed at protecting customers from digital fraud, offering coverage for up to 85% of the lost amount or a maximum of 25,000 rupees ($271.98).
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Top Court Directs Centre To Frame SOP To Deal With 'Digital Arrest' Scams
The Supreme Court on Monday described the siphoning of over Rs 54,000 crore by digital frauds as absolute "robbery or dacoity" and asked the Centre to draft a standard operating procedure in consultation with stakeholders like the RBI, banks.
-
Scamsters Use AI To Clone Cousin's Voice, Dupe Indore Teacher Of Rs 1 lakh
It sounded exactly like her cousin. The tone, the urgency, even the familiar way he spoke. But the voice on the phone was not her cousin's, it was generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
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Rate Of Digital Frauds Rising Since July: RBI Deputy Governor
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar on Friday said that the incidence of digital frauds has been rising since July this year.
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"Hope My Story Serves As Warning": Ex-Banker Loses Rs 23 Crore In Digital Arrest
A 78-year-old former banker who lost his life's savings, a whopping Rs 23 crore, to a fake "digital arrest," hopes his loss will serve as a warning to others.
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105 Indians Arrested In Cyber Scam Raids In Cambodia
The Indian Government is in talks with the Cambodian authorities to bring back its citizens arrested on a foreign land.
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86-Year-Old Mumbai Woman Loses Over Rs 20 Crore To "Digital Arrest" Fraud
An 86-year-old woman had received a call from a man, who claimed to be a CBI officer, and told her that based on her Aadhaar card, a bank account was opened which was used for money laundering.
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Bengaluru Techie Loses Rs 11.8 Crore After "Digital Arrest"
A 39-year-old software engineer became a victim to a "digital arrest" scam and lost Rs 11.8 crore when fraudsters impersonating police officials claimed that his Aadhaar card was being misused to open bank accounts for money laundering, police said.
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Centre Blocks 59,000 WhatsApp Accounts Used For Digital Fraud
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has identified and blocked more than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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Google buys Spider.io to weed out online advertising fraud
With Spider.io's tech, Google says it hopes to "weed out bad actors and improve the entire digital ecosystem."
