Skip to main content

Shantanu Sahay and Aasish Somasi talk about recruitment scams and their varying degrees of sophistication. Correspondingly, tackling such cybercrime requires specialised skills and institutional backing.

Indian youth is entering the workforce in large numbers and is poised to take over the wheels of the Indian economy. The lack of skilled labor, rising cost of living, and diminishing scope for trans-border opportunities have proven fertile ground for criminal elements to devise elaborate scams to profit from the situation. From the typical “email” promising a job with a multinational company to the more elaborate scams involving domain name squatting and masking have started to emerge in alarming numbers.

The advent of the telecom revolution in India, clubbed with cheaper access to the Internet and computing technologies, has made the Internet generation a sitting duck for fake click-bait and fake email employment offers. The growing sophistication of scams which use techniques such as domain masking to appear as genuine emails from reputed companies demonstrates the urgency to discuss and address this problem head-on.

Read the full article on Legal Era.

Read about the HCL case in which banks, an e-wallet platform were ordered to disclose the details of perpetrators running a recruitment scam.

Most Recent

News & Insights

VIEW ALL
News & Updates, Thought Leadership
Jan 15, 2026

First published by Lexology. Authors: Safir Anand, Mudit Kaushik and Sehr Anand The handling of price sensitive corporate information has become increasingly

The Regulatory Cost of Informal Digital Disclosures
News & Updates
Jan 02, 2026

First published by Lexology. Authors: Pravin Anand, Saif Khan, Shobhit Agarwal and Prajjwal Kushwaha A. Background B. Legal Issues Addressed C. Directions

Landmark Ruling On Domain Name Fraud and Systematic Reforms in Digital Commerce
Thought Leadership
Jan 01, 2026

First published on Enterprise IT World. Authored by Subroto Kumar Panda As we stand on the final day of 2025, reflecting on a year of dizzying

The Great Dissolve: Re-Engineering Enterprise Workflows for the 2026 AI Paradigm
Thought Leadership
Dec 19, 2025

First published on Express Computer. Authored by Subroto Kumar Panda The notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, marks

The DPDP: An 18-month compliance imperative for the C-suite