https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51753362
Confessions of a call-centre scammer. This week, the BBC showed scammers at work in an Indian call centre, recorded by an activist who hacked into the company's security cameras. Staff were seen

https://www.gqindia.com/get-smart/content/vijay-mallya-pnb-nirav-modi-10-biggest-scams-in-india-that-sucked-the-country-dry-of-money
From Vijay Mallya to PNB Scam, here are 9 of the biggest scams in India that shook the nation from its core. 1. Vijay Mallya - Rs. 9000 Crore. There was a time when people used to call him the

https://www.tripsavvy.com/top-most-common-scams-in-india-1539149
Read more about begging in India. A similar scam operates involving pens. 08 of 08. Money Scams . Zubin Shroff/Getty Images. Make sure you keep a very careful eye on your money in India! People will try and short-change you. And, they have some sneaky ways of doing it, including magician's sleight of hand! You may give the correct payment in

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/world/asia/india-call-center-scam.html
Deli Police Cybercrime Unit. NEW DELHI — The police in New Delhi say they have arrested more than 50 people involved in a call-center scheme that lured victims into thinking their assets were

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/in/personal-finance/financial-scams-in-india/
In the fiscal year 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) documented bank frauds exceeding 302.5 billion rupees, equivalent to INR 30,000 cr. While this marked a decrease from the 1.3 trillion

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61564038
India's loan scams leave victims scared for their lives. 6 June 2022. By Priti Gupta & Ben Morris,Mumbai. Getty Images. Loan scam apps lure in victims with an easy qualification process. When Raj

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-15/online-scammers-find-a-fertile-market-in-india-as-the-internet-spreads
March 10, 2023. According to the Internet and Mobile Assn. of India, about half of India's 692 million active internet users engage in online transactions. The group's 2022 report predicted

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66964510
Watch: Secretly recorded footage at two call centres that recover money for loan apps. A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/multiple-india-based-call-centers-and-their-directors-indicted-perpetuating-phone-scams
A superseding indictment has been unsealed against multiple Indian-based call centers and their directors charging that each of them conspired with the previously-indicted VoIP provider E Sampark, and its Director, Guarav Gupta, to forward tens of millions of scam calls to American consumers. The call centers and their directors place the initial scam calls, and the VoIP provider forwards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61564038
In India, this type of mobile phone scamming has become all too common. Between 1 January 2020 and 31 March, 2021, a study by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) identified 600 illegal lending apps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html
I flew to India at the end of 2019 hoping to visit some of the call centers that L. had identified as homes for scams. Although he had detected many tech-support scams originating from Delhi

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/05/india/india-fake-covid-vaccine-scam-intl-hnk/index.html
An estimated 2,500 people were given fake shots, he said. The organizers charged their victims fees for the shots, earning up to $28,000 in total. "We have arrested doctors," he added. "They

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India
The Times of India. 7 June 2008. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. ^ "Teachers' recruitment scam: Pleas to make 4 IAS officers, teachers accused rejected". The Times of India. 28 March 2012. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. ^ "No headway in Rs 16,000 cr submarine scam probe".

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/01/coronavirus-pandemic-india-employment-fraud/617689/
The coronavirus pandemic was in full swing, and India's caseload was increasing fast. A brutal weeks-long lockdown had hammered businesses, throwing huge numbers of people out of work, with data

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/india-recorded-over-79-million-phishing-attacks-in-2023-new-study-suggests-2533497-2024-04-30
In 2023, online scams in India saw a rise and every other day, there were reports of people losing their hard-earned money to scammers.A lot of these scams were phishing attacks, which basically is the way scammers steal sensitive information like usernames, passwords, bank account information, etc by posing as a legitimate source such as the government, an organisation or a bank.

https://time.com/6290548/india-abandoned-brides-justice/
June 28, 2023 7:21 AM EDT. I n Akalgarh, a village in the northern Indian state of Punjab, Jagdeep Kaur's family cobbled together a hefty $8,500—almost four times the average annual salary in

https://www.yahoo.com/news/online-scammers-fertile-market-india-100059765.html
The group's 2022 report predicted that India would have 900 million active internet users by 2025, meaning the untapped market for scams is skyrocketing. In turn, cybercrimes such as phishing

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/owner-and-operator-india-based-call-centers-sentenced-prison-scamming-us-victims-out-millions
An Indian national was sentenced today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016.

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2020/12/owner-and-operator-india-based-call-centers-sentenced-prison-scamming-us
WASHINGTON - An Indian national was sentenced on November 30, 2020 to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016.. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, aka Hitesh Hinglaj, 44, of Ahmedabad, India, was sentenced

https://thehackernews.com/2022/02/us-authorities-charge-6-indian-call.html
According to the November 2020 indictment issued against E Sampark and Gupta, the calls from India-based phone scammers led to reported losses of over $20 million from May 2015 to June 2020, with the company maintaining roughly 60 servers in the U.S. state of Florida for this purpose and which contained over 130,000 recordings of scam calls.. The scheme involved the callers posing as Internal

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/24-defendants-sentenced-multimillion-dollar-india-based-call-center-scam-targeting-us-victims
The India-based co-conspirators then loaded these cards with scam funds obtained from victims. The runners used the stored value cards to purchase money orders that they deposited into the bank account of another person.

https://www.ft.com/content/7451f2de-91fa-49f3-acb3-e83ab5c00eff
India is the world's largest consumer and producer of coal after China. But strong demand and bottlenecks on its railways mean that it needs to import too, with Indonesia its biggest supplier of

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-group-scam-on-rise-in-india-what-is-it-how-to-be-safe-2544884-2024-05-28
The latest of these deceptive tactics is a new WhatsApp Group Scam, through which scammers are luring innocent people with stock market investment plans. In a recent report of the WhatsApp Group scam, two brothers from Pune, India, were defrauded of Rs 2.45 crore (approximately $295,000). This scam, like many others, began on the popular

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/this-is-what-makes-online-trading-scams-most-dangerous-in-2024/articleshow/110364850.cms
Indians lose over Rs 1,750 crore in first four months of 2024, trading scams 'most dangerous'. Rajesh Kumar, CEO of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, notes that cyber fraudsters

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64495673
India's unemployment rate crept up to nearly 8% in December 2022, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), an independent think tank. It was less than 7% in 2021. Getty Images

https://variety.com/2024/global/asia/sonyliv-hansal-mehta-applause-entertainment-scam-subrata-roy-1236005807/#!
In the early 2000s, Roy was accused of several financial misdemeanors, leading to his arrest in 2014. He died in 2023. "Scam 2010" is the third in a franchise about Indian financial scandals

https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/hollywood/beware-of-the-joker-scam-how-cybercriminals-are-exploiting-innocent-housewives-job-seekers-in-india/ar-BB1nfljv
According to Kumar's data, between January and April of this year, Rs 1,420 crore was lost to 62,587 investment scams, Rs 222 crore to 20,043 trading scams, Rs 120 crore to 4,600 digital arrest

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/nyregion/social-media-scam-sextortion.html
The consequences can be devastating. "David," a 32-year-old pharmacy technician, fell for a sextortion scam. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times. The Instagram message popped up from a girl

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68705913
The Indian government has so far rescued 250 citizens in Cambodia who were forced to run online scams. They were promised jobs but "forced to undertake illegal cyber work", India's foreign