Rajasthan Police warns against fake wedding invite links as marriage season kicks in
Jaipur (PTI): With the onset of wedding season in Rajasthan, the state police has cautioned people against falling prey to cyber criminals circulating fake e-invitation links that can steal personal and financial information from mobile phones.
DIG (Cyber Crime) Vikas Sharma said on Saturday that fraudsters are sending malicious APK files often named 'invitation.apk', disguised as wedding invitations or location-sharing links.
“Once a user clicks on the link and installs the file, it deploys a backdoor malware that hacks the mobile device,” the DIG said.
The malware can gain unauthorised access to SMS, contact lists, camera, and stored files, he said.
“It then secretly collects personal data, banking information, OTPs, and passwords, which are later used by cyber criminals to commit financial frauds,” the officer added.
Such attacks are becoming increasingly common during festive and wedding seasons, when people are more likely to click on unknown links shared via messaging apps, he said.
The cyber crime unit has urged citizens to verify a sender's identity before opening any e-invitation or gift link and to instal applications only from trusted sources such as Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
The advisory comes as the wedding season commenced across Rajasthan after Devuthani Ekadashi on Friday, with thousands of marriages expected to be somenised in November and December.
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BJP using women's quota bill as front to pass Delimitation Bill that will break India: Mamata
Cooch Behar (WB) (PTI): Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday alleged the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was using the proposed amendment to the women's quota law in Parliament as a front for the Delimitation Bill that would "break the country into pieces".
The TMC will fight this Central government's move at every step, she asserted at her party's poll rally here.
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, along with the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, to implement the proposed amended women's quota law, in the Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
According to the Constitution amendment bill, Lok Sabha seats will be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats will also be increased in state and Union territory assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
Opposing the Centre's move, Banerjee alleged that "the BJP brought the Delimitation Bill while keeping the women's reservation bill at the front".
"The BJP is trying to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to nearly 850 through the Delimitation Bill. It will break the country into pieces," the TMC supremo said.
She also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not speaking the truth about the development of north Bengal at a BJP rally last week.
"The prime minister said nothing was done for the development of north Bengal. But we spent Rs 1.72 lakh crore on the development of the region," Banerjee said and asked Modi to cross-check data before making such remarks.
