"I Got A WhatsApp Video Call And My Life Turned Into A Nightmare"
By Kaisar Andrabi In November 2021, Aijaz Baba was sitting with his family when his phone rang. The call was from an unknown number. Aijaz, a government teacher, was then on Covid vaccination duty so he had been receiving numerous calls from people inquiring about vaccination certificates. Assuming the call might be from someone enquiring about vaccination, the teacher answered the WhatsApp video call. That one video call turned into a nightmare for him. A recent surge in unknown Whatsapp video calls in India has left many users in distress. In the last few weeks, cyber branches in many states...