New Scam in Town: A Journalist Recounts 28-Hour-Long 'Digital Custody'

July 22, 2024 12:54

In what was a close shave with one of the many online scams going around, the author recounts how criminals posing as police officials held him in digital custody over Skype on the pretext of helping him avoid arrest, writes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. Read the column here.

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