• Gods of Fraud

    Dear fellow-fraud junkies, I’m back with your favorite weekly fix. This past week I’ve heard some mouth-watering fraud stories that I’ve been bursting to talk about. I just could not decide which ones should be covered here. There was some super stiff competition. But let me present the three winners for top fraudsters in India….

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  • 20 Privacy & Security Settings for your iPhone

    🔒 Your iPhone isn’t as private as you think… Think your default settings keep you safe? Think again. From sneaky location tracking to hidden app permissions, your iPhone could be quietly leaking your data. We’ve compiled 20 must-change privacy & security settings that you need to know.

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  • Cyber Hygiene Tips

    Use these below general safety tips to increase your chances of being safe while online. Implementing these tips can greatly enhance your safety and security while navigating the internet.

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  • Fraud Verifications

    A report by a KYC/BGV vendor found that the most forged documents were Voter ID, PAN Cards and Aadhar, in that order. In India we already have a problem of plenty. Add to the further issue of multiplicity of Aadhar-PAN one-to-many combos. Once I remember when issuing a largish payment to a party, I had…

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  • Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep’s Clothing

    In my business I have no option but to listen into tons of underground chatter. That’s where I ran into a scam app let’s call it BS AI (because most of it was BS in the name of AI). It grandly claims to be the trading expert in the field of artificial intelligence. (I wish…

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  • Tinder Swindler – The all new dating scam

    If you are 20 something looking for love on Tinder/Bumble/OkCupid/Hinge etc. then you’ve probably read about the dating scam. Story time. Amit (name changed), VP of a startup in Gurugram was looking for a same sex relationship on a dating app. The potential partner chatted him up and asked if he could drop by. The…

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  • Protect your devices like a Pro – Secure your phone

    There is a famous riddle shared among generation after generation of us, fraud fighters. It goes as follows: If you are being chased by a lion how fast do you need to run? Answer: Well, you only need to run a little bit faster than the slowest person in the group, so the lion doesn’t…

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  • What is SIM Box Fraud?

    SIM Box fraud is a type of interconnect bypass fraud in telecom. Simply put, SIM Box is a device used to route Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls through to local traffic by connecting to local GSM networks using one or more SIM cards, hence avoiding international calling tariffs. The device allows a user to…

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  • Steganography – The New Attack Vector

    Raise your hand if you watched the web series ‘The Freelancer’? The show in which a new bride ends up getting abducted into Syria, and is rescued back to India. In one scene, the ‘Freelancer’ sends the victim a harmless looking image to click open to infect the antagonist’s phone? That was an example of…

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  • Business Email Compromise

    In a little-known story that ran in some local newspapers in May of 2022, a snack and sweets manufacturing firm was duped of over INR 43 lac, the rough equivalent of USD 55,250. This is by no means a small amount for an SME business in India. An official of the firm Siddhivinayak Agri Processing…

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