Few scams created as strong ripples in India as the stamp paper racket did.
Mewat, Bharatpur and Mathura is the new hotbed of cyber fraud in India.
Fraudulent instant loan apps have spread across India.
Smartphone Freedom 251 grabbed headlines, but never had mass production.
The IRS scam, or the 'Mira Road call centre scam' of October 2016, trapped thousands of American citizens, who ended up losing over $150 million to people who posed as IRS officers.
When Popular Finance, a Non-Banking Financial Company in Kerala, abruptly halted operations, thousands of depositors lost their lives' savings in a Ponzi scheme valued at Rs 2,000 Cr. As per reports, they have invested money in Dubai and Australia, which the ED doubts were transferred through Hawala channels.
Ketan Parekh was known as the Pied Piper of the Stock Market. Riding on the wave of the dot-com boom, he manages to live up to his moniker -- until doomsday arrives, eventually leading to India's biggest stock market scam.
Cryptocurrency is becoming the next big thing, and India already has the highest number of cryptocurrency owners globally. But with no regulations in place yet, the market is a hunting ground for scamsters, leading some victims to lose their life savings.
Extortion - a business that runs on fear, that had gripped Mumbai city for two decades, and still has a hold on the city but in a new form. Discover the rise of extortion rackets in Mumbai from the 1980's till the early 2000's.
A country obsessed with gold, when faced with restrictions, finds newer and more incredulous ways to get what it wants. Explore the business of gold smuggling from the 1960's to date and discover the innovative strategies that people use to smuggle gold.
