Understanding Aadhar Enabled Payment Systems
Aadhaar Enabled Payment System is developed by NPCI that allows people to carry out financial transactions by furnishing just their Aadhaar number and verifying it with the help of their fingerprint/iris scan. Any bank customer who has their Aadhaar as their identity can access their respective Aadhaar-enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions such […]
Watch out for Sextortion Frauds
Social media creates an opportunity for young women and men living in socially conservative non-western societies to be able to communicate, meet, and engage in forbidden intimacies and forbidden behaviour. Men are being contacted on Instagram and WhatsApp by women having attractive profile pictures. They seduce you via chat and persuade you to do a […]
Know all about multi-level marketing scams
Multi-Level Marketing companies involve sell their products or services directly via person to person sales. If you join a multi-level marketing program, an investor is referred to as a “distributor,” “participant,” “contractor” or a “founder.” There are two different ways you can make money: (a) you are a direct retailer; (b) you could recruit new […]
Be watchful, investment frauds on the rise
Interpersonal trust is the fundamental feature of investment fraud. Creating false hopes of higher returns within a short duration combined with the constraints of accessing investment related information is motivation for people to fall prey to fake investment schemes. There are many types of investment fraud, like Ponzi schemes, pump and dump schemes, and app-based […]
Don’t Fall Prey to Lottery Frauds
Lottery Frauds You may get a call or email, or SMS or WhatsApp saying you won a lottery, or prize like a new car, or a scratch card which can get few lakhs of rupees. We can easily identify it’s a lottery scam because of what they do next, they ask you to pay money […]
Short links come in handy to Cyber Crooks.
Clicking That Short Link Could Cost You Long URL sometimes may look so ridiculously long, and we have URL shorteners come into existence! They take lengthy URLs and make them shorter and easier for the recipient. Popular URL shortening services include Bitly, TinyURL and Rebrandly. Benefits of Shortened URLs The Dark Side of URL Shorteners […]
Online dating is an easy path to trouble!.
Online Dating : Social media creates an opportunity for young women and men living in socially conservative non-western societies to be able to communicate and meet and engage in forbidden intimacies and forbidden behaviours. You can be a highly intelligent person with a good job, but the strategies the dating fraudsters use are highly sophisticated, […]
All you need to know about Online Betting Fraud?
Online Gambling Online gambling is one of the major industries that gained popularity due to Internet availability. As per the latest statistics, India has 1.10 billion people (79% of the Population) having access to Mobile and 624 million (42% of the population) have access to the Internet, amongst this 92.8% of them play games online […]
Beware of Fake Giveaway Scams on Social Media Platforms.
Fake Giveaways : Often, we see posts of giveaways on other social media platforms, and most of them originate from YouTube & Instagram. To win free groceries, designer clothes, a ticket to a music concert, to test their products, or get more followers or another substantial prize that promotes their brand value, all you need […]
Easy way to dodge Social Media Scams.
Social Media : Social Media has its own set of unique risks, whether it’s phishing attacks, protecting corporate accounts from compromise, fighting fraud, or defending against social engineering scams like impersonating accounts Social media accounts are susceptible to exploitation, probable attacks that can happen are (a) #HashtagHijacking (b) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) & Cross-Site Request Forgery […]
