{"id":279261,"date":"2023-01-20T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/the-menace-of-online-fraud-now-the-icc-becomes-a-victim-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T07:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T07:48:52","slug":"the-menace-of-online-fraud-now-the-icc-becomes-a-victim-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/01\/20\/the-menace-of-online-fraud-now-the-icc-becomes-a-victim-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"The menace of online fraud: Now the ICC becomes a victim | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-97167535,imgsize-15058.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>If you thought only a vulnerable common man can fall prey to phishing, think again. Even a corporation, equipped with sufficient manpower and state of the art technology to carry out proper checks and balances, can be a victim of online deception. <br \/>Looks like the fraudsters are finding new ways to practice their trade. How else can one explain the <!-- -->International Cricket Council<!-- --> (<!-- -->ICC<!-- -->) being duped of almost $ 2.5 million online?<br \/>That the ICC has been cheated not just once, but four times in recent times is even more galling. The authorities at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happytrips.com\/topic\/Dubai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/www.happytrips.com\/topic\/Dubai\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" frmappuse=\"1\">Dubai<\/a> office of cricket&#8217;s world governing body did not have a clue that they were being made victims of an <!-- -->online fraud<!-- --> till Thursday.<br \/>The ICC officials maintain silence on the matter citing an ongoing investigation, but TOI can confirm that payments have been made to a party based in the US, which claimed to be a vendor of the ICC. The fraudsters have used an email id that apparently was familiar to the ICC.<br \/>The scam has taken ICC members by surprise. The amount, close to $ 2.5 million is a huge amount for Associate nations affiliated to the ICC, if not for a full member, and an official of an Associate nation expressed dismay.<br \/>&#8220;I cannot imagine it has happened in the ICC,&#8221; the member from Europe said. His board would get between $ 500,000 to $ 100,000 grant annually, something given to the <!-- -->Associate Boards<!-- --> with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ODI\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_ODI\" frmappuse=\"1\">ODI<\/a> status.<br \/>The matter is being investigated internally and externally with ICC&#8217;s finance department coming under sharp focus as to how its staff was so clueless as to have not done the due diligence and released payments four times.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                  window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n                  const { TimesApps } = window;\n                  TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() {\n                    (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                      if (f.fbq) return;\n                      n = f.fbq = function() {\n                        n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n                      };\n                      if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                      n.push = n;\n                      n.loaded = !0;\n                      n.version = '2.0';\n                      n.queue = [];\n                      t = b.createElement(e);\n                      t.async = !0;\n                      t.src = v;\n                      s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n                    })(f, b, e, v, n, t, s);\n                    fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n                    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n                  };\n                })(\n                  window,\n                  document,\n                  'script',\n                  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js',\n                );<\/script><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n                  window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n                  const { TimesApps } = window;\n                  TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n                    var scripts = [\n                    'https:\/\/static.clmbtech.com\/ad\/commons\/js\/2658\/toi\/colombia_v2.js' ,\n                    'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074',\n                    'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-658129294',\n                    'https:\/\/imasdk.googleapis.com\/js\/sdkloader\/ima3.js',\n                    'https:\/\/tvid.in\/sdk\/loader.js',\n                    'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/video_comscore_api\/version-3.cms',\n                    'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v10.0&xfbml=true',\n                    'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n                  ];\n                    scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n                      let script = document.createElement('script');\n                      script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n                      if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n                        script.src = url;\n                      } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n                        script.src = url;\n                      } else if (!false && !false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n                        script.src = url;\n                      } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n                        script.src = url;\n                      }\n                      script.async = true;\n                      document.body.appendChild(script);\n                    });\n                  }\n                }\n                <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/news\/the-menace-of-online-fraud-now-the-icc-becomes-a-victim\/articleshow\/97167561.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If you thought only a vulnerable common man can fall prey to phishing, think again. Even a corporation, equipped with sufficient manpower and state of the art technology to carry out proper checks and balances, can be a victim of online deception. Looks like the fraudsters are finding new ways to practice their trade. 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