The Unit-1 of the crime branch arrested Akram Sharif Shaikh (47), a resident of Cheeta Camp in Trombay and Dongri resident Mohammed Shabir Akbar Master alias Munna (52) on Monday, an official said.
Don't get into Pakistan's trap of fuelling tensions in India via social media. Several fake Twitter handles of senior Indian military leadership are doing the rounds. These are not real Twitter accounts of the persons mentioned. The Indian Army and other security agencies are taking strict action against these fake Twitter handles that are fabricated by Pakistani agencies to spread misinformation about India after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A.
ISRO Chairman K Sivan has no personal accounts on social media platforms, the Indian Space Research Organisation clarified on Monday. The Indian Space agency's clarification came after several fake social media accounts operating with K Sivan's name emerged in large numbers, more so after the Chandrayaan-2 mission. Several social media users were seen following these fake accounts including on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
A USCIS statement explaining the change says fake accounts and identities will make it easier for investigators to search for potential evidence of fraud or security concerns as they decide whether to allow someone entry into the U.S.
The airline will soon file an FIR against the person or persons running this fake recruitment scheme, said one of the officials. The national carrier came to know about this fake scheme on Wednesday through social media when a person posted the advertisement and asked Air India whether it is running such a recruitment scheme or not, the official said.
Two minor boys, aged 13 and 11, in the Uttar Pradesh state capital cooked up a kidnapping story, fearing punishment from parents for skipping school.
Two men were arrested for allegedly cheating more than 500 people of nearly Rs 80 lakh through their fake shopping portal after luring them with lucrative prize offers from Tughlakabad Extension, police said Sunday.
The accused, Rohit Soni, 23, is a resident of Churu in Rajasthan and is a BCom graduate, police said.
The accused even managed to get two police constables to accompany him during the raid conducted at the house of the trader, identified as Adesh Goel, they said.
#GoBackModi and #TNwelcomesModi are two samples of trends boosted by Twitter bots, which used a few accounts to send a large number of tweets using the hashtags. One such account tweeted 2,179 times at the rate of one tweet every 5.3 seconds for over three hours.
The woman had asked for a police escort, an act the couple had previously done in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, Meerut, Aligarh, Moradabad and Haryana's Gurgaon, on forged identity, a senior official said.
Facebook said that its action against the pages linked to Congress was not based on the content but on the behaviour of the account holders.
Officials of the Central GST have unearthed an alleged tax fraud of Rs 224 crore by a group of eight companies, which generated fake invoices worth Rs 1,289 crore.
Elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly are scheduled to be held by the end of this year.
Dubbed as ‘Prank Paytm’, the app shows a message mimicking the original Paytm alert saying that the payment has been made. However, during tallying the shopkeepers found that no such payments have been received from their end.
As the admission season is on, students are looking to make career choices aiming to get through top-notch universities around the country.
"We are leaving nothing to chance and all aspects of the accident are being thoroughly probed," said an officer, who did not wish to be identified.
As many as 200 million accounts on Facebook are either fake or duplicate as on end December 2017 and India is among the countries which have a high number of such accounts.
Already under lens for its role in Russia's meddling into the 2016 US elction, Facebook has admitted that up to 270 million accounts on the platform are either fake or duplicate.
According to the report, a version of popular mobile game Temple Run 2 can also be found which was uploaded in October.
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