Don’t scan the QR code. If you don’t know who sent it, don’t take the risk. Return to sender or throw it away. If the package has a return label, send it back. Otherwise, dispose of it safely. Use the ...

Investment scams are the most prevalent schemes, as victims are groomed into sending funds via cryptocurrency to fraudulent ...

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is phasing out the 'Collect Payments' feature from the UPI platform to curb fraud. This method will ...

Authorities are now favouring 'push' transactions, where customers initiate payments by scanning QR codes or using other ...

Pull transactions are perhaps witnessing the largest number of fraud attacks. Here, users unknowingly authenticate a ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

Doctors, who have never applied for such a scheme, are being informed that they would get a plot in the purported doctors’ enclave in the health park. The letter claimed that the project is a ...

Most frauds are happening through the pull method, and NPCI is exploring the possibility of removing this feature altogether ...

You can never be too careful when downloading new apps to one of the best Android phones. Case in point: Bitdefender has ...

A collect call, or 'pull' transaction, allows merchants to initiate payment requests from customers. Still, fraudsters tend ...

A 54-year-old man from Banashankari was scammed of Rs. 1.4 lakh by a fraudster posing as a BBMP engineer. The scammer claimed to need money for flight tickets after being stranded in Prayagraj.

In Singapore, at least S$1.1 billion (US$822 million) was lost to scams last year. CNA's Darrelle Ng recounts how she nearly ...