E-mail Scams

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today told a Delhi court that AAP leader Manish Sisodia, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam, had planted fabricated e-mails to show that there was a public approval for the policy.

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested three men for allegedly duping a Noida-based software engineer of Rs 60 lakh on the pretext of making him the heir to the fortune of a fictitious London-based NRI, officials said.

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...

British officials issued an unusually stark alert about a cyberscam that locks users out of their computers unless they pay a ransom, saying Friday that tens of millions of people may soon be targeted.

Four Nigerians were arrested in Belgaum today for allegedly duping the public of several lakhs of Rupees by informing them through e-mail that they had won an e-lottery worth five lakh pounds.

The Delhi Police has busted a gang involved in an e-mail lottery scam after arresting a Nigerian national and his Indian woman accomplice.The Nigerian national Obaseki Prince and the woman from Manipur Boni Sushila James were arrested from outside the IGI airport on February 24 following a probe into a complaint filed by one Rakesh. Rakesh claimed ...

FIFA is warning that a long-established e-mail fraud scam now claims to be connected to the World Cups being organized in Russia and Qatar.

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...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today told a Delhi court that AAP leader Manish Sisodia, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam, had planted fabricated e-mails to show that there was a public approval for the policy.

The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested three men for allegedly duping a Noida-based software engineer of Rs 60 lakh on the pretext of making him the heir to the fortune of a fictitious London-based NRI, officials said.

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...

British officials issued an unusually stark alert about a cyberscam that locks users out of their computers unless they pay a ransom, saying Friday that tens of millions of people may soon be targeted.

Four Nigerians were arrested in Belgaum today for allegedly duping the public of several lakhs of Rupees by informing them through e-mail that they had won an e-lottery worth five lakh pounds.

The Delhi Police has busted a gang involved in an e-mail lottery scam after arresting a Nigerian national and his Indian woman accomplice.The Nigerian national Obaseki Prince and the woman from Manipur Boni Sushila James were arrested from outside the IGI airport on February 24 following a probe into a complaint filed by one Rakesh. Rakesh claimed ...

FIFA is warning that a long-established e-mail fraud scam now claims to be connected to the World Cups being organized in Russia and Qatar.

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...