Two top officials of an online shopping portal have been arrested in New Delhi for allegedly duping people by taking money from them for articles which were never delivered, police said on Saturday. Arindam Bose (47), an electronics engineer, and Harish Ahluwalia (35), Director and Chief Operations Officer respectively of on-line shopping portal timtara.com, were apprehended following investigations into over 200 complaints from victims claiming that they had paid money...
01:50 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Washington: Several online fraud schemes, mainly operating from India, that duped people in countries like the US, UK and Canada into paying to clean their computers of bogus virus infections, have been shut down by US authorities in a crackdown on so-called tech support scams. At the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a US District Court Judge ordered a halt to six alleged tech support scams pending further...
05:28 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Mumbai: The first arrests have been made in the Rs 1320 crore Speak Asia fraud case. Mumbai police have arrested the online survey company's COO Tarak Bajpai and four other officials into custody. But the Singapore-based owner of the ponzi scheme company is still absconding. "We have registered an FIR under cheating and criminal conspiracy (section 120b)," said Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy. Based on a subscription...
11:18 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Beware of emails from friends asking for money. It could be a scam. ...
12:12 PM, Jan 08, 2009
Playing on the dusty, surly and spin-friendly surfaces of India is a tough challenge any team could face, but doing it without your frontline spinner increases that challenge significantly. In a few days’ time New Zealand will confront the same situation when they take on India in the first of two Test matches without the services of their former captain and highest wicket-taker, Daniel Vettori. What Vettori has done for...
08:30 PM, Jun 17, 2008
