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Noida woman tries getting her sim card converted into e-sim, ends up losing Rs 27 lakh

A 44-year-old woman from Noida fell victim to an eSIM scam, losing ₹27 lakh and becoming the target…

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Noida woman invests in stock market via an app, loses over Rs 69 lakh as it turns out to be a scam

A 32-year-old woman from Greater Noida lost over Rs 69 lakh to scammers posing as stock market advi…

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Top 5 personal finance scams in India and how to stay safe from them

Don’t make any payments just because a stranger told you to. Verify the situation and the person’s …

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Woman loses ₹54 lakh in work-from-home scam! Here's what it is and how to protect yourself

Job hunting is something that most of us do online, be it on social media or various online job por…

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I was scammed out of $300K in a 3-month-long government impersonation scam

Over the course of 3 months, a 28-year-old woman was scammed out of over $300,000. When she realize…

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Noida woman scammed ₹11 lakh in digital arrest scam – everything you need to know

Online scams are on the rise in India, with scammers finding new ways to dupe people. After the lik…

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Scammers stole more than $400,000 from a woman through an elaborate Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes scam: police

Florida scammers tricked a woman into believing she won a $3 million sweepstakes, then stole $400,0…

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Delhi woman loses ₹50 lakh in SIM Swap scam – Here’s how you can stay safe

In a bizarre incident, a woman from Delhi has reportedly lost ₹50 lakh to a new scam that is on the…

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Match Group CEO says he has empathy for victims of romance scams but 'things happen in life'

The CEO of Match Group — which is facing a lawsuit from the FTC — said the safety of users is the c…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Pune man loses ₹2 crore to fake investment scam – what it is and how to protect yourself

In yet another online scam, a Pune man reportedly lost a huge amount in a new fake investment scam.…

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My dad almost paid a ransom after being told I was kidnapped — but it was all a scam

A daughter says her dad got a call saying she had been kidnapped. The scam demanded thousands in ra…

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A woman lost her life savings and was left with just $5 after she got scammed by a bogus durian seller: report

The 50-year-old woman who wanted to buy cheap durians inadvertently authorized a scammer to take te…

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Ohio woman charged after police say she faked her daughter's cancer diagnosis to raise thousands of dollars

Police charged a woman in Ohio with theft by deception and say she admitted to exaggerating and fab…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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How one woman turned her acting gig on Broadway into an investment portfolio focused on social impact

As a Broadway performer, Lisa Morris wasn't anticipating a career change. Now, she calls herself an…

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Crypto scams are preying on vulnerable people. Many victims are deceived online, including an elderly woman who lost thousands.

An Indiana-based woman was only able to recover a fraction of the money she lost to a man who convi…

Zahra Tayeb   


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A 33-year-old woman was swindled out of $300,000 worth of bitcoin after her Hinge romance turned scam

She thought the funds were going into a legitimate crypto exchange. Instead, the money went into th…

Natasha Dailey   


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A viral TikTok jewelry scam is sucking in customers with 'revenge' videos by creators who say they too were tricked

Customers of Trugala, Deraldi, and Vulosa were lured in with too-good-to-be-true discount codes, pr…

Lindsay Dodgson   


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How a woman lost nearly $150,000 to a romance scammer who gaslit her

Linda Young told the BBC that she had fallen under the scammer's "spell" and that the experience wa…

Rebecca Rommen   


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Sextortion: A looming threat to online security and how to defend against it

Sextortion is a criminal act that involves blackmailing someone by threatening to expose sexually e…

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A hacker ripped me off for $10,000. The scam turned out to be brilliant and terrifying.

Verizon, Chase, and the police were all useless when my identity got hacked. Then Psycho Bunny came…

Avery Hartmans