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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned Indians against an emerging online fraud known as “digital arrest”. Some people have reportedly been scammed out of millions of rupees by fraudsters, who contact their victims via video call posing as police or tax officials levelling false charges at them. The scammers order their victims to stay […]
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Moments of distraction. Credit: Alejandro J. Vivas -Shutterstock The National Police has detected the return of the hackneyed old scam of the bird-poop stain in Malaga: be wary if you are warned of bird droppings on your clothes. A moment of bewilderment is taken advantage of by a con-artist for the theft of valuables, having […]
Police in Sri Lanka have arrested more than 230 Chinese men accused of targeting international banks in online scams, the foreign minister said, with help from security officials sent by Beijing. Vijitha Herath said police raids over the past week had also seized 250 computers and 500 mobile phones used in the alleged scams, with […]
A residential construction company is warning Albertans to watch out from falling victim to a scam. According to Building Industry and Land Development Association Alberta (BILD Alberta) — a not-for-profit that represents home builders — several residents in the Edmonton and Calgary areas have received fake letters imitating the association, looking to access people’s homes […]
I am writing to let you know that a group of scammers are now regularly impersonating me (pretending to be Nial Fuller) on social media sites and other websites across the internet. These impersonators are actively contacting our members and followers on Messenger / Chat apps via Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Whatsapp and other social media […]
Applications that trick users into paying huge subscription fees raked in over $400 million from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, according to research done by Avast. The so-called “fleeceware” takes advantage of a weakness in both app stores: deleting an application tied to a subscription doesn’t cancel the subscription. What is fleeceware? […]