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Many Indians are falling prey to scammers and losing money with just a call or two..
Now, based on our own experience in which we got a call from someone claiming to be an LIC agent, India Today Tech can reveal how cyber criminals are using social engineering to scam their victims...
I turned on the speaker on the phone, opened a recorder app on a colleagues phone and went about figuring out how scammers are nowadays stealing money from Indians with just one call..
But in those 10 minutes, the modus operandi of these scammers became clear not just to me but to the entire India Today Tech team which gathered around my workstation to hear the story the scammer he called himself Anil Sharma from LIC office in Uttam Nagar, Delhi was weaving...
Anil Sharma this is probably a fake name that the scammer was using began the conversation by saying that my father asked him to transfer Rs 13,000 to my Google Pay account.By this time, I was convinced that the man I was talking to was no ordinary man but a cybercriminal preying on his new target because my father had passed away last year...
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