A day after announcing that she was falsely led to believe that she had been offered a teaching position at Harvard, journalist Nidhi Razda...
A day after announcing that she was falsely led to believe that she had been offered a teaching position at Harvard, journalist Nidhi Razdan on Saturday alleged the entire process was an elaborate plan aimed at “stealing my money and taking my personal data to misuse it”.
In a detailed account published in a blog on NDTV, Razdan said she fell for the sophisticated phishing attack, which comprised not only the exchange of phone calls and emails, but elaborate interviews, forged appointment letters, and “official” invitations.
“Back in June 2020, I had announced on Twitter that I was moving on from NDTV after nearly 21 years to join Harvard University as an Associate Professor to teach journalism,” she wrote. “I truly believed it was a terrific opportunity. But here I am, almost eight months later, devastated by the realisation that this entire process to ‘hire’ me; my ‘appointment’ to Harvard was all part of an elaborate and sophisticated phishing attack to access my bank account, personal data, my emails, my medical records, passport and my devices like my computer and phone.”
“If after all this the only thing I can be accused of is being stupid, then I'll take it on the chin, learn from it and...
