Warning Smses

Government authorities and police are warning citizens about an e-challan scam targeting vehicle owners with SMSes that resemble text alerts for traffic challans.

RBI is also launching 'missed-call' helpline to warn people against text messages promising lotteries and prize money from the Reserve Bank.

The Reserve Bank will soon launch an awareness campaign -- Suno RBI Kya Kehta Hai -- through SMSes to warn the public against falling prey to unsolicited and fictitious offers from fraudsters.

Close on the heels of the mass exodus of northeastern people from various states in the country after mails and SMSes did the rounds warning of retaliatory attacks for the ongoing violence in Assam, the Cyber Cell of the Pune police arrested four persons in two separate cases yesterday for their contribution to the panic situation.

Mobile handsets Blackberrys face a dark future in India. The reason: emails, SMSes and messengers on Blackberry cannot be cracked easily as these services are highly encrypted.

As patrons at Bull Feeney's danced to a '90s cover band and sipped from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Eric Coulombe, the manager, fiddled with what he says is the latest weapon against the rowdiness and fighting that has long plagued the bar scene in this seaside city -- an iPod Touch. Bar owners and the police here have started a text messaging syste...

Government authorities and police are warning citizens about an e-challan scam targeting vehicle owners with SMSes that resemble text alerts for traffic challans.

RBI is also launching 'missed-call' helpline to warn people against text messages promising lotteries and prize money from the Reserve Bank.

The Reserve Bank will soon launch an awareness campaign -- Suno RBI Kya Kehta Hai -- through SMSes to warn the public against falling prey to unsolicited and fictitious offers from fraudsters.

Close on the heels of the mass exodus of northeastern people from various states in the country after mails and SMSes did the rounds warning of retaliatory attacks for the ongoing violence in Assam, the Cyber Cell of the Pune police arrested four persons in two separate cases yesterday for their contribution to the panic situation.

Mobile handsets Blackberrys face a dark future in India. The reason: emails, SMSes and messengers on Blackberry cannot be cracked easily as these services are highly encrypted.

As patrons at Bull Feeney's danced to a '90s cover band and sipped from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Eric Coulombe, the manager, fiddled with what he says is the latest weapon against the rowdiness and fighting that has long plagued the bar scene in this seaside city -- an iPod Touch. Bar owners and the police here have started a text messaging syste...