Net frauds: RBI seeks CBI help

Mail menace: Unknown sources seek account details, promise fabulous returns

For 35-year old Radha Nair (name changed), a government employee in Coimbatore, banking has assumed a whole new meaning in last few weeks.

It all began with an email from an unknown person posing to be a senior officer of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) congratulating her for wining an international lottery prize worth $500,000 (Rs 2.3 crore).

Beware! That 'benign' email can make you a money mule

June 15, 2010

If an online offer to make easy money is too good to be true it probably is. So, be careful or go to jail

See the trap

An email from a firm abroad offers to make you a financial conduit. you get ill-gotten money from them and after taking your cut, you transfer the remaining amount to them