Several prominent female journalists and media personalities in India including ex-NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan were targets of online scammers who promised prestigious jobs at Harvard, the New York Times reported today.
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Nidhi Razdan announced that she had quit NDTV to take up a Professor s job at Harvard University. Razdan confirmed that she received an offer letter from Harvard and that is why decided on leaving her job after working for 21 years.
She claimed to be the victim of a phishing attack and said she received a fake offer letter. According to Razdan, her teaching tenure at Harvard was supposed to begin from September 2020 but was pushed to January 2021 due to the pandemic.
Journalist Nidhi Razdan says her Harvard University offer was fraudulent, calls it a phishing attack
On June 13, she announced that she would be quitting NDTV to take up a teaching role at the US institution. Nidhi Razdan via Twitter
Journalist Nidhi Razdan on Friday said that she had been a victim of a “very serious phishing attack” that resulted in her believing that she had been offered a teaching position at Harvard University. The journalist had on June 13 announced that she would be quitting NDTV to take up the position.
“In June 2020 and after 21 years with NDTV, I decided to move on and said that I would be joining Harvard University as an Associate Professor of Journalism,” said Razdan in a statement released on Twitter. “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 anoma