
Crooks target online advertisers
The Hindu
People warned not to scan QR codes to receive money as there is no such facility
With popular online marketplace and classified advertising platforms OLX and Quikr blocking the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses originating from the country’s cybercrime hubs — Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Jharkhand’s Jamtara — the fraudsters are pretending to be buyers and cheating people who post ads online.
In the past few years, lakhs of people from across the country fell to the tactics of cybercrooks who post fake ads online and dupe them.
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