{"id":216,"date":"2019-12-18T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:31:01","slug":"phishing-the-emergence-of-sinister-side-of-the-corporate-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/blog\/phishing-the-emergence-of-sinister-side-of-the-corporate-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing: The emergence of sinister side of the corporate world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.\u201d \u2013 General George Patton<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well it seems like the youths of India are hitting the “bottom” so hard these days that their desires of bouncing back to the top, has blinded them from scrutinizing whether the opportunities they are getting are genuine or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phishing attacks percentage<\/strong> has increased in recent years, for example, In January, 2019, CEO of an Award Winning Recruitment Firm, Wisdom Jobs, was arrested with 13 staffers. Working since the year 2009, they’ve duped a whopping 1.04 lakh jobless people scamming nearly Rs70 crores in return of promising fake jobs inside and outside India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, 2018, 7 fraudsters were held in custody in Delhi for defrauding 20 jobless youths, by taking 2 lakh for each instead of providing fake jobs at ONGC. So, if you’re living in India, looking for a job inside India or abroad, you need to know first who are you going to deal with before even getting your appointment letter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although, India has secured the seventh place in the rankings of international nominal GDP in 2018, the unemployment rate has gone up to more than 7.5% in 2019. The scammers are taking advantage of this situation by providing non-existent jobs and thereby, increasing the phishing attacks percentage<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freshers passing out of colleges are easily getting trapped for being unable to handle the peer pressure from their families, and the fake consultants are using every opportunity that they are getting because of the easy accessibility of the internet. Families of these youths are now blinded by their desires of seeing their kids working into MNCs in the Gulf or abroad, since they’ve invested lakhs of money for 3 – 4 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The embassies and companies are putting advisories to warn the new applicants on their official websites. Renowned groups like TCS, Shell, and Monster.com<\/a> have also put warnings to save the youths from being duped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, here are the steps that you need to be aware about these fraudsters use to hunt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n