Cybercriminals impersonate magazines, food delivery apps

Mumbai: Cybercriminals continue to adopt new methods to dupe people. In two such cases reported at Malabar Hill police station on Saturday, scamsters replaced the contact numbers of popular establishments— a women’s magazine and a food delivery portal—with their own numbers to dupe victims.

In the first instance that occurred at around 11am on Friday, Amisha Kanoriya, 39, a writer, looked online for a contact number for the Women’s Era magazine as she wanted to check the status of a payment due to her for one of her recent short stories. Of the two numbers she found on Google, there was no response on the first, while her call to the second number was answered.

“The person on the other end confirmed that he was speaking from the magazine and asked her to install an app called ‘Rusk Support’ as part of the ‘payment process’.