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Unable to find good jobs, youth in India are turning to scam call centres and online microwork

Sumit Khanna, Thomson Reuters Foundation Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Mar 26, 2023 · 01:30 pm
A new book chronicles the crimes, trial, and exoneration of stamp scam mastermind Abdul Karim Telgi

Bhaswar Mukherjee
· Dec 09, 2022 · 08:30 am
‘Truth Pill’: This book examines how some Indian drugs get away without meeting quality standards

Dinesh S Thakur Prashant Reddy T
· Oct 11, 2022 · 08:30 am
Watch: Man buys idols of Hindu deities online, tells village he found them in field to extort money

Scroll Staff
· Sep 02, 2022 · 03:52 pm
The untold story of India’s Rs 3,000-crore farmer scheme scam

Sadiq Naqvi Snigdha Poonam
· May 11, 2022 · 06:30 am
Scammers like Anna Delvey and the Tinder Swindler exploit a core feature of human nature

Vanessa Bohns, The Conversation
· Feb 28, 2022 · 11:30 pm
From Nirav Modi to ABG Shipyard: Why do bank frauds keep happening in India?

Mimansa Verma, qz.com
· Feb 26, 2022 · 01:30 pm
Three decades after Harshad Mehta, the absence of strong deterrents leaves investors vulnerable

Joydeep Ghosh
· Nov 20, 2020 · 11:30 am
Watch: Here’s how a police officer in the US handled a caller who attempted to scam her

Scroll Staff
· Sep 03, 2019 · 02:22 pm
Watch: The US late night shows explain the college admission bribery scandal

Scroll Staff
· Mar 15, 2019 · 08:00 pm
Your Morning Fix: Why is the Centre bringing a law against NRI men who desert their Indian wives?

Scroll Staff
· Nov 30, 2018 · 06:30 am
In India, blackmailers are making threats with sex videos obtained by hacking computers, webcams

Abhishek Dey
· Aug 11, 2018 · 09:00 am
Mumbai: Rs 2,000 crore diamond money laundering scam unearthed, four arrested

Scroll Staff
· Jul 14, 2018 · 07:51 am
CBI books 13 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation officials in Rs 80 crore scam

Scroll Staff
· Jun 01, 2018 · 09:38 am
18 arrested as Times of India employee allegedly conspires to defraud newspaper of Rs 15 crore

Scroll Staff
· May 09, 2018 · 07:00 am
Indian banks could lose Rs 19,000 crore in the PNB scam, says tax department: Reuters

Scroll Staff
· Feb 18, 2018 · 09:25 am
PNB scam: CBI asks Interpol to help locate jewellery designer Nirav Modi, MEA suspends his passport

Scroll Staff
· Feb 16, 2018 · 11:44 am
Fodder scam: How Lalu Yadav manoeuvred desperately to evade the CBI’s noose 20 years ago

Sankarshan Thakur
· Dec 23, 2017 · 05:02 pm
Ignoring warnings, Facebook allowed political ads that were actually scams and malware

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeff Larson & Julia Angwin, ProPublica
· Dec 11, 2017 · 08:30 pm
Assam’s Information and Public Relations Director Ranjit Gogoi arrested over corruption charges

Scroll Staff
· Nov 07, 2017 · 10:38 pm