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Delhi Police bust job racket, 2 Nigerian nationals arrested

Police recovered 52 SIM cards, two Data Cards, three Laptops and five mobile phones from their possession. The recovery includes the mobile phone used in the case of cheating. Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested two foreign nationals, identified as Michael James and Umeadi Valentine Chigozie from Mandawali area of Delhi. They were arrested on a complaint received by the cyber cell for a case of cheating in Cyberabad, Telangana. Police recovered 52 SIM cards, two Data Cards, three Laptops and five mobile phones from their possession. The recovery includes the mobile phone used in the case of cheating. THE CASE The cyber cell of the Delhi Police received a complaint from M Ganagalakshami. She alleged that "Some unknown frauds cheated her with the amount of Rs 2,25,600/- on the pretext of providing her job opportunity in Qatar Airways Co. The frauds took this amount from time to time as Visa charges, Processing fee, Medical fee and to transfer Access Code etc." The co...

Google punishes sites with pop-up adverts

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Google is to penalise websites that feature intrusive pop-up adverts. It is updating the algorithms  used to rank its search results so that offending pages are more likely to get lower placings. The change is due to come into effect on 10 January. Google makes much of its money from placing ads on the mobile web. One expert said the company wanted to give users one less reason to use ad-blockers or search within apps instead. For its part, Google said the move should make using some of its results less frustrating. "Pages that show intrusive interstitials [elements that cover the content] provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible," it blogged. "This can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller." Punishing pop-ups The California-based company gave three examples of practices it wanted to discourage: pop-ups that covered part of the main content when the user clicked on to ...