The Income Tax department on Tuesday issued an advisory asking taxpayers not to share their personal financial details over email or phone.
By toxic, the reference is to material that whips up hatred, is discriminatory in nature and has explicit sexual and pornographic content.
The accounts were hacked during April and May, police said, adding that the Axis Bank had contacted Mumbai police and informed that they had set up a committee to probe the matter.
Gullible bank customers are getting fooled by callers who scare or lure them.
Both groups warn of initiating strict actions, issue public notices.
Physical KYC takes anywhere between two to five working days to get done, V-KYC, only a few minutes.
It is suspected that the electronic device at the ATM counter enabled the fraudsters to collect the secret pin code and card details.
The hacker, called 'Legion', has threatened to expose more financial details of Mallya in coming days
In an online chat with readers on April 27, Sameer Ratolikar, Chief Information Security Officer, HDFC Bank, answered readers' queries on how to secure their online banking transaction.
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Some people have tried to secure their unaccounted cash by donating it to temples by taking its management into confidence and making receipt of such donations as anonymous donors
Contactless denit and credit cards increases the ease and convenience of transactions.
The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday conducted searches in various Uttar Pradesh cities after it registered a money laundering case to probe the alleged Rs 3,700 ponzi scam case perpetrated by seeking fake social media 'likes' from lakhs of gullible investors by a Noida based firm.
An imposter posing as a former Pakistani cricketer has duped the BBC.
'There's a lot of confusion. It started because the President's tweet was all-encompassing.' 'It has been watered down over the last few days though to more narrow classes of immigrants.'
'More than 114 cases have been registered for spreading fake messages, rumours and fake news on WhatsApp.' 'People on various groups are reporting such crimes.' 'The most heartening development is people are now not tolerating such things.'
'Last year, Rs 20,000 crore was ripped off from the banking system.' 'The situation has deteriorated under the Modi government.'
The "pervasive" threat of financial crimes and corruption is a challenge to the country's economy and global efforts are required to combat this menace, CBI chief Ranjit Sinha said.
Sebi has been given direct powers to freeze bank accounts, attach properties, conduct search and seizure and initiate recovery proceedings.
'There has been a marked increase in four types of cases.' 'One is fraud related to online deliveries, online shopping and online groceries and liquor.' 'Second fake news, third hate speech and fourth sextortion.'
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said directions have been issued in the wake of a rise in the number of cheque-related fraud cases.
Reserve Bank has almost finalised the structure of Central Fraud Registry.
Indian companies lost around $53 million (about Rs 328 crore) due to phishing scams with the country facing over 3,750 attacks in July-September this year, making it the fourth most attacked nation globally.
Here are some pointers that should serve as red flags for you
A minor fire followed by smoke at the venue of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's mass contact programme held here amid tight security gave tense moments to police and other officials on Friday.
Inoperative accounts are those accounts where contributions are not made for more than 36 months. The Employees Provident Fund Organisation has stopped crediting interest in these inoperative accounts.
Thousands of Left Democratic Front Opposition volunteers continued their siege of the secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram for the second day, demanding resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and a judicial probe into the solar scam.
The team management in London was told that Sardar should come to Leeds for questioning by the Yorkshire police.
As soon as you board a taxi, auto or bus, text the route and vehicle number to a close friend and a central data base -- may be a police control room.
The regulator is also exercising its new powers like collection of information from other regulators, government departments and even commercial enterprises such as telecom companies and banks.
Rajan posed the question while speaking at the annual leadership conference in Mumbai National Association of Software and Services Companies.
Advisors and agents known to you personally can also sell wrong policies.
Offenders will be tried under Prevention of Money Laundering Act
Theft, bribery and corruption, and regulatory non-compliance are the top three frauds
Without naming either the alleged kingpin of the fraud, billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, or Punjab National Bank, Jaitley questioned the ethics of some businesses in the country and asked as to why the bank's internal and external auditors could not detect the fraud which had been going on for 7 long years.
The measures needed for implementing this new system would start rolling in few weeks, the minister added.
If your case is picked up for random scrutiny, any of the tricks that you or your financial advisor may have used to avoid tax will be easily detected.
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The latest fraud is a failure of management supervision and accountability, as no bad debt was generated and no cash was involved
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