While it is true that the Verdict on the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar reads down the Aadhaar Act in several key areas, the overall effect is one of deep disappointment about the readiness of the Indian judiciary for the digital age. The judgment is rife with a lack of comprehension Read more…
Title of article Source Location Date Fraud Online banking fraud racket busted – 4 including kingpin held Hindustan Times Delhi 25-05-2018 Banking Fraud Aadhaar-link con calls may wipe out your bank balance The Times of India Lucknow 13-05-2018 Phishing Scam Credit card fraud: 3 nabbed in Bengal Times of India Read more…
Title of article Source Location Date Fraud How Aadhaar in Database Other Documents Fringe area tenants under cop scanner The Telegraph Palamu 23-09-2018 Property rent Forged NA Y Aligarh killings: Police to quiz ex-SP MLA over ‘fake encounter’ charge The Times of India Aligarh 23-09-2018 NA NA NA Y Two Read more…
March 2018: In yet another classic case of hacking the biometric authentication system, 27 people were arrested in what was described as “hi-tech cheating” by a senior official in the Rajasthan Police Constable Entrance Examination 2018. The accused said they learnt the art of making a thumb-print clone on youtube. Read more…
The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer, Mangesh Sitaram Bhalerao provided people who worked under him with rubber stamp copies of his thumbprint. These rubber stamp fingerprints Read more…
A document from the UCO bank leaked on Twitter seems to be setting a target of 16 enrolments daily that must be met by the operators. @gautambhatia88 bank employees are being harassed in the name of Aadhar. There are daily targets in bank for Aadhar enrollment and Aadhar updation and Read more…
The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards in Read more…
Chandigarh: In yet another blow to the much touted Aadhaar eco-system, a recent case of a huge “scam” involving Aadhaar seeding of a large number of ration cards with unique identity (UID) numbers of those not entitled to subsidised ration has come to light in the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Read more…
Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala’s Kozhikode district are discovering three new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yet Read more…
AHMEDABAD: In another instance of a fake Aadhaar creation racket, police here arrested three people who were making Aadhaar cards for people who did not have any identity documents, and were charging Rs 600 per card against the government norm of Rs 30. The Times of India, quoting the Deputy Read more…