How Ex-NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan Fell Victim To Harvard Job Scam Through Phishing Mails: Read Details Here

New Delhi: NDTV’s popular anchor Nidhi Razdan is the latest one to become a victim of a phishing attack. Razdan, who quit NDTV in June 2020 after being offered a job of Associate Professor of Journalism at Harvard University, realised that the offer was fake.

Announcing that she became the latest victim of cyber crime, Nidhi on Twitter wrote, “I have been the victim of a very serious phishing attack. I’m putting this statement out to set the record straight about what I’ve been through. I will not be addressing this issue any further on social media.”

It was in June 2020, Nidhi announced in Twitter that she has decided to move from NDTV where she was working for the last 21 years as she would be joining Harvard University in September 2020.

“While I was making preparations to take up my new assignment, I was later told that due to the ongoing pandemic, my classes would commence in January 2021. Along with these delays, I began noticing a number of administrative anomalies in the process being described to me. At first, I had dismissed these anomalies as being reflective of the new normal being dictated by the pandemic, but recently the representations being made to me were of an even more disquieting nature.”

When Nidhi reached out to senior authorities at Harvard University for clarity she was told to share some of the correspondence that she had received from the University.

“After hearing from the university, I have not 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. 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 or social media accounts,” she says.

Nidhi Razdan has filed a complaint with the police and provided them with all the relevant documentary evidence. She has also written to the Harvard University authorities and urged them to take the matter seriously.