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A long and elaborate campaign to dupe NDTV’s Nidhi Razdan

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Senior journalist and news anchor Nidhi Razdan was all set to start teaching at Harvard University this year. But it turns out she appears to have been a victim of a elaborate phishing campaign through which actors behind the attack gained access to her device and email/social media accounts. Razdan broke word of the scam in a statement on Twitter Friday evening. In June 2020, the former New Delhi Television anchor said that she had been been offered a position at Harvard as an Associate Professor of Journalism and was therefore leaving the TV channel. “I had been given to believe that I would be joining the University in September 2020. While I was making preparations to take up my new assignment in January 2021. Along with these delays, I began noticing a number of administrative anomalies in the process being described to me," she said. “After hearing from the University, I have now learnt that I have been the victim of a sophisticated and coordinated phishing attack. I did not, in fact, receive an offer by Harvard University to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism. The perpetrators of this attack used clever forgeries and misrepresentations to obtain access to my personal data and communications and may have also gained access to my devices and my email/social media accounts,” she said in her statement. Further, in a blogpost on NDTV, Razdan explained how she fell for the scam. Razdan declined to comment when MediaNama reached out to…

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