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Nigerian Email “419” Scam – Nigerian National Arrested in Kerala

A Nigerian was arrested in Kerala in connection with a 419 scam (Advance-fee fraud) or the Nigerian email scam. The scam had its origin in an email that the victim received in February 2008, informing that he had been nominated to inherit a rich fortune (15 million US Dollars) by a millionaire. After an exchange of emails, he had been asked to send €29,500 through Western Union Money Transfer as fees for the attorney to help with this money transfer. […]

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Hyderabad City Police’s Delete Campaign Against Cyber Crime

Hyderabad City Police recently lanched a concerted campaign against cyber crime, DELETE. All Cyber Cops, IT Core Teams, Blue Colts, hacktivists and victims will be talking to the general public in cyber cafes, offices, training institutes, schools and colleges about the evils of unknown mails and narrate their experiences in the cyber space.

This campaign involves Lectures, Experience Sharing in the form of presentations on the safety in the net by the Cyber Cops and IT Core Teams of Hyderabad City. Hyderabad Police welcomes citizens to share their cyber fraud experiences with others by mail or by SMS. Hyderabad police has enabled 9010 100 100 for receiving SMS on cyber crimes. […]

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Nigerian SMS Scam in Mumbai, Lose 5 Lakh Rupees

Nigerian Scam has been around and spread via email for quite sometime. There have been cases where a few people got arrested in Mumbai a year ago. Now, they have gone a step further to spread vis SMS.

The victims of such an Nigerian SMS scam reported that they received am SMS similar to the one that the income tax official had received last month, saying they had won a cash prize and were asked to pay Rs 5 lakh each to claim it. […]

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BSNL Cell Phone to All Policemen in Kerala

Kerala government planning to provide BSNL mobile phones and SIM cards to about 40,000 policemen of the state police free of charge. also all the 436 police stations in the state would be computerised using free software and broadband Internet connections will be also be provided. Video-conferencing facilities between courts and jails would also be expanded. […]