{"id":472408,"date":"2022-03-03T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472408"},"modified":"2022-03-03T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:16:30","slug":"scams-targeting-indian-electric-vehicle-industry-on-the-rise-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/scams-targeting-indian-electric-vehicle-industry-on-the-rise-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Scams targeting Indian electric vehicle industry on the rise: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the nascence of the Electric Vehicle (EV) sector in India, security firm CloudSEK on Wednesday said that it has identified a large-scale phishing campaign targeting potential EV distributors and users.<\/p>\n<p>According to the firm, scammers are exploiting Google Ads to misdirect users to phishing sites that collect users&#8217; data and money. With each site defrauding users of Rs 200,000-Rs 400,000, in booking fees and down payments, the scam has so far cost the Indian public over Rs 40-Rs 80 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is notable that the scams increased considerably after the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, for electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, was approved by the cabinet in September 2021,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the nascence of the Electric Vehicle (EV) sector in India, security firm CloudSEK on Wednesday said that it has identified a large-scale phishing campaign targeting potential EV distributors and users. According to the firm, scammers are exploiting Google Ads to misdirect users to phishing sites that collect users&#8217; data and money. With each site defrauding users of Rs 200,000-Rs 400,000, in booking fees and down payments, the scam has so far cost the Indian public over Rs 40-Rs 80 million. &#8220;It is notable that the scams increased considerably after the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, for electric and hydrogen fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}