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.
Short Links 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. There are a lot of benefits of short URL’s and a few of them are (i) We will have the ability to track the […]
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 […]
Demystifying Crypto, the Virtual Currencies.
Crypto Currencies : Cryptocurrencies, often referred to as virtual currencies and these currencies are not supported by either by Government of India nor the Reserve Bank of India, these are digital assets secured by cryptography that are used as a medium of exchange. They are valid as they are backed by a blockchain system with […]
Beware of Cybercriminals Exploiting the Pandemic.
Cybercrime amidst Covid 19 : Cybercrime is a national threat even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The all-presence of technology and the growing rates of internet connectivity due to the rise of remote working, as well as the continued development of recent technologies that provide anonymity, have made cybercrime a low-risk, high-reward journey to both state […]
Beware of whom you Romance Online.
Social Media 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 behaviors. We regularly see plenty of online stories on dating apps and social media expressions, where men and women who pose as wealthy […]
Tricky World of Online Job Scams.
About Online Job Scams : People getting trapped in online Job scams are rising, this is because of Covid19 and shrinking jobs in the private and public sector, added to is the large number of students passing out from professional colleges. Scammers collect data of the unemployed youth from the darknet that belongs to Job […]
