India’s national cybercrime monitoring agency has issued a new warning to the public over a phone-based scam that is leading to bank fraud and account takeovers. The National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit released the advisory under the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre framework after tracking cases where fraudsters used USSD call forwarding codes to divert banking and verification calls. India’s cybercrime unit has warned mobile users about a phone-based scam that diverts calls and enables bank fraud.(Pexels) Authorities said the scam does not rely on internet access or malicious...
