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This journalist got scammed into quitting her job and telling the world that she had been hired by an Ivy League university as a professor. Months of effort an
by SanjayMehta 4y ago
This journalist got scammed into quitting her job and telling the world that she had been hired by an Ivy League university as a professor.
Months of effort and multiple email domains created to push the scam.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vq8m/india-nidhi-razdan-phishing-scam-harvard-job-offer-fake-cybersecurity https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vq8m/india-nidhi-razdan-ph...
- webmobdev 4y agoI believe she was targeted by the ruling political party, who have a history of harassing and doxxing their critics, (or the current indian government itself) to demoralise her and besmirch her reputation as a journalist. And that happened. She is now attacked by her critics for her "naivety", and ridiculed by them, and she went into depression and took a break. (It all points to that as she was never asked for any money, as is is usual with these kind of scam. )
- honkler 4y agoI don't think the ruling party and its political supporters are clever enough to execute it. It was surely quite weird what happened with her though.
- SanjayMehta 4y agoI seriously doubt that they would waste their time on this. They have much more powerful tools at their disposal. 1. Aatish Taseer: His OCI card (something like dual citizenship, but not quite) was cancelled. He claims he's been told not to even attempt to visit India ever again. 2. Rana Ayyub: she created a donation website and got clobbered with tax evasion. 3. Numerous NGOs: including Green Peace and Amnesty have had their licenses revoked. There are many more such cases, but off the top of my head, these jumped out.