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Who was the Indian TV journalist who got scammed by Harvard?

Charles Krupa, File/AP An award-winning Indian TV journalist fell for an elaborate phishing scam in which she was tricked into thinking she’d been hired at Harvard University, she said Friday.

What happened to Rachel Razdan’s documents at Harvard?

Razdan was sent a sheaf of forms, all on Harvard letterhead, for her visa application, salary payments and medical insurance. The documents were stolen from Harvard’s website, where the university made them publicly available.

How did the New York Times find out about the Twitter scammers?

The New York Times reviewed private messages, emails and metadata the scammers sent to the women as well as archives of the scammers’ tweets and photos that the scammers claimed were of themselves.

Who is the woman who was scammed by a scammer?

Razdan said the sophisticated scammers “used clever forgeries and misrepresentations” to get her personal data along with possible access to her email and social media accounts. A police complaint has since been filed about the scam, according to the UK Independent.

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What did the Indian journalist leave for?

A top Indian journalist left her longtime job for a Harvard professorship. The offer was a hoax, she says. A top Indian journalist left her longtime job for a Harvard professorship. The offer was a hoax, she says.

Why did Nidhi Razdan leave NDTV?

Last year, Nidhi Razdan announced she was leaving her job as a lead anchor at NDTV after 21 years at the Indian broadcast news station to teach journalism at Harvard University.

Does Harvard have a journalism department?

Harvard doesn’t have a journalism department, or any journalism professors. The job offer, it turns out, was a hoax, she says. Razdan, a renowned TV journalist, says she was the victim of a “sophisticated and coordinated phishing attack.”. In a statement Friday, the 43-year-old described how she was led on by the fake job offer over the course ...

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Who is the reporter who portrayed Hay as a hapless victim?

Hay’s lawsuit, filed Aug. 5 in the Southern District of New York, claims that reporter Kera Bolonik portrayed him as a “credulous, hapless victim” of two women he was involved with, report Law360 and the Volokh Conspiracy.

What is the criminal label affixed to the women?

The story would have revealed that a “criminal” label affixed to the women was “the product of a prejudice-driven effort to weaponize law enforcement,” according to the suit . The article allegedly mischaracterized a July 2017 incident in which the two women had refused to leave the home that Hay shared with his ex-wife.

Who is Maria Pia Shuman?

Hay contends that Bolonik’s article misrepresented the two women, Maria-Pia Shuman, a cisgender white woman, and her wife, Mischa Shuman, a transgender woman of color, “as scheming, deviant femmes fatales preying on a series of men,” including Hay.

Who is the most gullible man in Cambridge?

Bolonik’s July 2019 article was titled, “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?”. The story made Hay, a civil procedure professor, the object of ridicule and damaged his reputation, according to the complaint.

Who is Bruce Hay?

Image from Shutterstock.com. Bruce Hay, a professor at Harvard Law School, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was sexually harassed by a New York Magazine reporter who gained his confidence, manipulated him and portrayed him as a gullible victim in the article that she wrote.

Was Hay a victim of the women?

Hay was embroiled in an “escalating legal conflict” with the women, “facilitated by individuals who had an interest in driving them apart,” according to Hay’s suit. Although he came to think that he was a victim of the women, Hay says, he later realized that he was mistaken. Bolonik’s July 2019 article was titled, ...

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