Scam
- Technology
Crypto scam revenue slips 65% amid economic downturn
New Delhi: As the global downturn continues, the crypto scam revenue for 2022 also dropped 65 per cent at $1.6 billion this year, lower than where it was through the end of…
- Hyderabad
Explainer: How Karvy Stock Broking Ltd duped its shareholders
Hyderabad: In 1983, five men, who were working as chartered accountants decided to start their own venture called Karvy Stock Broking Ltd (KSBL) in Hyderabad. Karvy soon grew into a giant financial…
- Middle East
Emirates warns of scam competition offering free flight tickets
Abu Dhabi: Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has issued a warning against a fake competition that claims to offer free roundtrip tickets. The scam, which has been circulated on social media, asks people to…
- India
WBSSC scam: Woman hurls slipper on Partha Chatterjee
Kolkata: Partha Chatterjee, tainted in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) crore scam, on Tuesday afternoon felt the heat of the public rage when a middle-aged woman hurled her slipper…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: ED raids railway contractors’ residences in the city
Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday raided the residence of two railway contractors allegedly involved in a scam worth Rs 100 crore. The central agency’s team from Delhi raided the residence…
- India
WBSSC scam: TMC leaders demand sacking of Partha Chatterjee
Kolkata: West Bengal’s industry minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in the SSC scam, should be removed immediately from his post and expelled from the Trinamool Congress, TMC’s state general secretary Kunal Ghosh demanded on…
- India
CBI busts racket promising governorship, RS seats for Rs 100 cr
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested four persons who allegedly duped several people on the pretext of assuring them of arrangement of seats in the Rajya Sabha,…
- India
Congress accuses BJP of receiving multi-crore donations from scam-hit DHFL
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday accused the BJP of having accepted donations of crores of rupees from the promoters and associated companies of the fraud-hit DHFL and asked whether there was…
- Technology
India’s biggest crypto ponzi scam may grow to Rs 1 tn, affecting 1 lakh people
New Delhi: The sheer size of the GainBitcoin scam that rocked the nation some time back is turning out to be way bigger than thought, with reports suggesting that around 1 lakh…
- World
Indian national arrested in US over scam targeting senior citizens
Washington: US federal law enforcement officials have arrested a 24-year-old Indian national in Virginia on charges of participating in an alleged nationwide scam targeting senior citizens. Anirudha Kalkote was produced before a…
- World
Australians losing millions to explosion in cryptocurrency, investment scams
Sydney: A new report from Australia’s peak competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has shown that Australians have lost more than double to scams in the first four months…