Mark Goodram (left) and Jon-Ross Watson are reportedly on a bender celebrating their lottery win, though Camelot hasn’t yet paid out (Pictures: Facebook) Lottery bosses are reportedly investigating a £4 million scratchcard won by two convicted crooks. Mark Goodram, 36, and Jon-Ross Watson, 31, appeared to have embarked on a four-day celebration to celebrate the multi-million […]
This WhatsApp hack method relies on fooling users into clicking a website link. To do this, scammers are now sending fake verification SMS messages to potential victims. Internet scammers are continuously stepping up their game to target a larger number of personal data and different accounts of unsuspecting internet users. Continuing with this
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The US government is taking aim at the “India-based call centre scam industry,” Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski has warned while announcing the extradition of an Indian citizen from Singapore allegedly involved in a multi-million dollar racket. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, 42, who operated the HGlobal call centre in Ahmedabad, was extradited to face trial on
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Prices for stolen Indian payment cards has also gone up by 150% in 2018 to around $17/card. By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | April 19, 2019 — 04:20 GMT (21:20 PDT) | Topic: Security Due to a booming cybercrime scene, India is expected to surpass the UK in 2019 and become the second-most targeted
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The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced Sata Owugha Clinton and Bolounmubofa Blessing Soroh to one-year imprisonment for impersonation and using the identity of a petitioner to enroll in the N-Power Social Welfare Scheme. The duo got into trouble when they used the name and identity of Lovedy Chiamaka Uzor to enroll in
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Adebayo Alonge is the Nigeran pharmacist who beat Tech startups from 119 countries to win the grand prize of €100,000. Adebayo Alonge won the grand prize in the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge for creating a handheld nano scanner that authenticates drugs. (twitter/Yale) The CEO and co-founder of RxAll competed against 4,500 contenders from 119 nations
A New York student sued Apple Inc for US$1bil (RM4.12bil), claiming the company’s facial-recognition software falsely linked him to a series of thefts from Apple stores. Ousmane Bah, 18, said he was arrested at his home in New York in November and charged with stealing from an Apple store. The arrest warrant included a photo
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Zubairu Muazu, Lagos Commissioner of Police Some of the policemen attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five suspects in connection with the gang-clash that occurred at Aguda near Surulere between Sunday and Monday. The Lagos State Police Command’s spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, said in a press statement on Monday that the suspects
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My team member,looking very upset, came to tell me that he had just found three mobile connections registered in his name, whereas, he actually owned only one. Both of his disowned number was activated on same date in two cities over 100 Km apart and away from his native city. Smiling, I asked did he
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Facebook Facebook on Thursday confirmed that it uploaded the contact details of 1.5 million new users without their permission in the last three years. “The error was discovered amid a change to the sign-up process made in March,’’ Facebook stated in a publication by the US news website Business Insider. The California-based social media giant
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