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Indian businessman loses over $7 million in an online gambling scam

Sean — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:07:44 +0000

An Indian businessman based in Nagpur was recently scammed by a person that posed as a bookie to steal his life’s fortune. The scammer was identified as Anant that was using the alias of Sontu Navratan Jain.

Scammer faked an online gambling platform to steal Rs 58 crore

The businessman was approached by Jain who persuaded him to try out online gaming. He claimed that this new avenue might bring solid profits. While he was initially hesitant, the businessman eventually agreed to try it out over the claims of easy money. He first transferred 8 lakhs INR to the scammer’s account through a hawala merchant.

After this, a WhatsApp link was sent to the victim that took him to an online gambling account, which showed 8 lakh INR in balance. The businessman was winning initially but eventually started losing his fortune. Over time, he won 5 crore INR but lost a whopping 58 crore INR. He found this situation suspicious and urged Jain to refund his entire losses, who denied to do so. Thus, the man from Nagpur turned to the cyber police, registering the case under the Indian Penal Code.

The police found Jain’s residence and raided it, but the scammer managed to escape ahead of time. He is believed to have left for Dubai at the moment. Although, his residence was found with over 14 crore INR in cash along with 4 kilograms of gold and more than 200 kilograms of silver.

Here’s How Google Tackles Fake Contributions & Scammers on Google Maps

Anubhav — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 03:06:55 +0000

Google Maps relies on user contributions to provide accurate and up-to-date information about locations around the world. However, some users may provide fake or misleading information for a variety of reasons, such as personal gain or malicious intent. One reason for fake contributions on Google Maps may be the Local Guides program, which incentivizes users to contribute information about places they’ve visited in exchange for perks like early access to new features and Google services. Some users may be tempted to provide inaccurate information in order to increase their contribution count and earn rewards. Another reason for fake contributions could be attempts to manipulate search results or damage the reputation of a business or location. For example, a competitor of a local business might leave fake negative reviews to try and hurt their business. However, the tech giant recently explained in a blog post how it tackles fake contributions to the platform, keeping it unbiased and safe for everyone who uses it.

The first way involves using machine learning to spot patterns of potential abuse. In one instance, automated systems detected a sudden uptick in Business Profiles with websites that ended in .design or .top, which were quickly confirmed as fake and removed by the team of analysts. The second instance involves a new machine learning model that recognizes numbers overlaid on contributed images, which helps detect and block fraudulent and policy-violating images before they’re published.

In 2022, Google made significant progress in combatting fake content. As per their blog post, they removed over 115 million policy-violating reviews, blocked or removed over 200 million photos and 7 million videos, and stopped 20 million attempts to create fake Business Profiles. Additionally, they took legal action against fraudsters who were impersonating the company and selling fake reviews online and shared their best practices with government agencies to tackle fake reviews industry-wide.

While scammers will continue to evolve their strategies, it is clear that Google’s teams will continue to invest in the latest technology and work around the clock to keep contributed content on Google Maps authentic, safe, and reliable. Plus, over the last few years, Google has made significant strides in the field of Machine learning and AI, which will hopefully further contribute towards keeping the platform secure without investing too much manpower in the same.

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[UPDATED] Xiaomi’s MIUI 13 can now protect you from phone frauds and scams in China, here’s how they do it

Leo Wong De Quan — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:37:00 +0000

UPDATE:

As of recent, Xiaomi announced an anti-fraud feature in its MIUI 13. However, one Xiaomi Exec has come to the Xiaomi China Community Forum to deny that MIUI has added any Chinese National Online Anti-Fraud Agency feature/app in its latest MIUI 13. Despite this, the South China Morning Post has reported that many Chinese Xiaomi users are unable to install certain apps after upgrading to Xiaomi’s latest MIUI 13 and users were attributing the problem to the “system-level full-link anti-telecoms fraud”, which was announced earlier, by Xiaomi’s head of MIUI, Jin Fan, during the company’s product event on December 28. Then, one Xiaomi spokesman clarified that the company’s anti-fraud feature is designed to flag spam calls, which was not supposed to flag apps as well.

Ever since the existence of wireless communication, there always has been a person behind the screen or phone trying to scam you of your info or of your money. With the prevalence of online scams these days, it is getting quite annoying to try to avoid them from getting into your life at every corner.

Well, fear not! Xiaomi has recently a new feature in its latest MIUI 13 to help solve these issues for its users. In MIUI 13, Xiaomi, in collaboration with the Chinese online anti-fraud government agency, has developed an in-country fully linked automated network with the database of info scammers and fraudsters across the country.

A screenshot of a QnA with the MIUI software team

Xiaomi mentions this feature implementation will be system-wide on MIUI 13 supported devices. This feature will be using a blacklist from the national fraud database, and in turn, show up as a warning to MIUI 13 users, if the SMS message or phone number used is listed in the database, or seems identical (i.e. word for word) to a message listed in the blacklist.

MIUI 13 anti-fraud in action

An example of how this feature works is when you are receiving a call from a blacklisted number in the database, the number will be shown as “caller fraudster” on screen for the user to immediately discern the difference. The warning will also appear next to the contact name as a warning, to let those who were recently upgraded to MIUI 13 be aware that which one of their contacts may be a potential info scammer.

As for SMSes, the network will also help identify the fraudulent messages, which may include fake OTPs from “banks”, or “banks” warning to pay up the credit card you have(when you don’t even have one). In MIUI 13, two warnings will be given. First, if the SMS service number is a known blacklisted number in the database and second, the message content resembles the vocabulary of a fraudulent SMS.

As mentioned by the MIUI software team, this is the Chinese government’s first initiative to implement this feature in the country’s smartphones, and as the country’s leading tech giant, they want to take action for the sake of their users as well.

As of now, only MIUI 13 supported devices are the Xiaomi 12 series, however, expect Xiaomi to roll out MIUI 13 to more of its devices in the coming months.

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