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Online frauds: When would we pay attention to them?

2020 is infamous for multiple reasons. Nidhi Razdan, formerly the executive editor at NDTV and a pri m e anchor of the news channel’s multiple shows would not want to remember (or would not be able to forget) 2020 because of what happened to her in a short span of one year. In January 2020, she received an offer from Harvard University to join there as an Associate Professor for journalism (at least that’s what she thought), and thus she resigned from NDTV in June 2020 ending her 21-year stint with the channel. But she was told her joining process was being delayed due to COVID-19. It was only in January 2021 when she wrote a mail to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that she realized the people she had been interacting with all this while weren’t from Harvard, instead they were fraudsters and she had been a victim of phishing and the fraudsters were able to access her personal data in the whole act. When the whole issue was shared online by Nidhi, it was the talk of