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online fraud

Crime

40 victims, most over age of 50: Six including Waris, Rayees and Wahid arrested for running online sextortion racket

Aditi - 8 January, 2021

The accused used to extort money from people after recording them watching obscene videos over video calls.

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YouTuber Lakshay Chaudhary levels serious allegations of fraud against Gaurav Wasan of Swad Official whose video on ‘Baba ka Dhaba’ had gone viral

OpIndia Staff - 26 October, 2020

Gaurav Wasan of Swad Official had uploaded a video about the financial difficulties faced by the elderly couple of 'Baba ka Dhaba'.

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One Mohammad Ajruddin arrested for impersonating army officers to cheat victims on Olx

OpIndia Staff - 23 May, 2020

The accused Mohammad Ajruddin and his gang had created various fake IDs of the army and paramilitary personnel on e-commerce platforms to lure victims on OLX.

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Online learning platform Unacademy hacked, details of 22 million users available for sale: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2020

Reportedly, the records include usernames, hashed passwords (SHA-256), date joined, last login date, email addresses, first and last names, account profile (staff member/a superuser), account status etc.

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