Mint Quick Edit: Cyber cons go from digital arrests to wedding scams
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Mint Quick Edit: Cyber cons go from digital arrests to wedding scams

Live Mint  

Even as people in India come to terms with the idea of a ‘digital arrest’, invented by scamsters acting like law enforcers to scare people out of their money, cybercriminals seem to have expanded their repertoire of tricks to swindle people online. Those who open these messages to check whose marriage they’re being called upon to celebrate end up with malware installed on their phone, through which sensitive data, such as bank information, gets stolen by the perpetrators. It’s a particularly pernicious ploy because nobody likes to miss news of weddings, giving such messages a high click-open rate. With so much digitization around us, even educated folks came to believe that the police had begun to engage citizens online.

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India TV News  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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