A spoofing scam is impersonating the Consulate General of India, putting the Bay Area's Indian residents at risk.

On a hot and humid August morning last year, Biren Yadav was alone at his home in Gurugram, a New Delhi suburb, when his phone rang. The call was from a woman claiming to represent the Telecom ...

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She races into her bedroom, shuts the door behind her, then falls to the checkered-tile floor. The only place to hide is beneath the bed. She wriggles under, struggling to keep her smartphone in place ...

Fact-checkers are best known for holding politicians, political commentators and social media users to account. But for some fact-checking organizations, scammers are a huge, and urgent, target.  In a ...

Within five hours while sitting at home in India, retired professor Kamta Prasad Singh handed over his hard-earned savings to online fraudsters impersonating police. The cybercrime known as “digital ...

They pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest growing fear scam, and other cyber frauds, work.

In May 2024, Pooja Shali, an anchor for India Today, received a concerned message from a friend. The friend had been scrolling Instagram Reels and came across what appeared to be a video of Shali ...

When the 58-year-old fraud victim told investigators in Maryland the details of how she had been duped out of $1.7 million, they knew she was hardly alone. A year-long, expanding investigation – the ...

Scam alert note on a telephone receiver on a desk, warning of potential fraud. Recently the FBI led a successful joint investigation with the Montgomery Maryland Police Department and the Montgomery ...