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For years, fraudsters have abused copyright takedown notices to dupe Google into removing websites from its search engine. But now the company is trying to fight back. 

On Monday, Google filed a lawsuit against two scammers based in Vietnam, who allegedly filed numerous false copyright takedowns with the company that targeted over 117,000 URLs. 

“These fraudulent claims resulted in removal of over 100,000 businesses’ websites, costing them millions of dollars and thousands of hours in lost employee time,” Google says in a blog post.

The alleged scammers, Nguyen Van Duc and Pham Van Thien, exploited a Google system that businesses and people can use to report copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Google will then take down the URL hosting the…

The cybersecurity awareness department of the Indian government has issued a notice alerting the public to the presence of various investment scams being circulated on the popular messaging platform, Telegram.

Beware of Task-Based Investment Scams: Cyber Dost’s Warning on Social Media

The official cyber-safety and cybersecurity awareness account of the Ministry of Home Affairs, known as Cyber Dost, posted a message on social media, specifically on X (formerly known as Twitter), cautioning individuals to exercise vigilance when encountering messages that encourage them to complete tasks like following Instagram accounts, liking YouTube videos, or writing hotel reviews in exchange for monetary rewards.

Watch out for these Task-based Investment Scams on #Telegram!
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Breakfast host Jenny-May Clarkson has warned against online scams after being targeted in several “disturbing” posts.

The TVNZ presenter shared screengrabs of some of the posts on her Instagram page, which include fake headlines like “TV host’s career in jeopardy: scandalous past finally exposed” alongside photoshopped images of her being arrested.

“Kia ora tātou, so this is relentless, disturbing, and sad,” she wrote in the caption.

“The narrative that accompanies these posts is also vile and unsettling. Please REPORT when you see these (or others like it), and DO NOT SEND MONEY OR GIVE OUT ACCOUNT DETAILS,” she warned.

“Sending…