I Was Scammed…………
Hey Mck’s, Today we are going to talk about the online scams that are happening with students. Some Scammers are targeting Engineering students in the name of Fake Internship Offers. Don’t worry I am not scammed but I was tricked to be, so Without any delay let’s get into the details.
So, As you all know the current situation of Jobs In the Software Industry Stream current situation due to the Ongoing Recession Students are desperate to get jobs and hackers saw the opportunity to scam students. Some Hackers are targeting students by contacting them as software companies offering them internship offers and asking them to pay money and some hackers went to the extreme of pretending as they are some placement counseling consultancies. They are contacting students and asking them to share some WhatsApp group links through which they are going to collect all the student's information. They are accessing student's emails through brute force attacks based on the information they provide.
Now Let me share with you people about the scamming attempt that was made on me. See the image below which shows how extent the scammers went to fake their identities and trick students.
This scammer tried to trick me and share some Google forms with my fellow students to collect some details and all. So this guy contacted me as my college Placement Cell admin and he tried to convince me that My college was trying to provide me with some counseling in order to attend he asked me to share that Google form with my fellow students as I got suspicious and verified I got to know that The Above shown number is not part of any faculty in the placement cell of my college As you can see I replied him rudely. After seeing my message he just left the chat box and I just reported him and blocked him. I know Displaying Someone’s Phone Number Publicly Without their Knowledge is a Violation of someone’s privacy I wanted to state to that guy who tried to scam me that I am not ready to Be scammed by people like you and I never will be. I Displayed his number Purposefully so that people who are reading this right now can also report that number in Truecaller, In order to clear it for you guys I also filed an FIR in the National Cybercrime Portal.
As I was trying to educate you people about the cybercrimes that are happening in the world I have stated in many of my articles that no one has the right to give your mobile number to anyone without your concern. According to the ITA(Information Technology Act 2000) Section 70 A it is a punishable offence also. Whenever a new number tries to contact you, you have the right to question them and you have to ask them form where they got your number and if they don’t have a proper answer you can file a Fir against them also. So please be careful with the people on this digital world and stay secure.