SRINAGAR: Nidhi Razdan, formerly with NDTV, has revealed that she was the victim of a phishing attack and the Harvard University never offered her a position as an associate professor in journalism.
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
Journalist Nidhi Razdan Says Job Offer From Harvard Was Fake, Calls It A Phishing Attack
Nidhi Razdan (Pic Via Twitter)
Journalist Nidhi Razdan, who quit NDTV last year to join Harvard University as an Associate Professor of Journalism, has now said that the job offer at the prestigious American University was fake, claiming she was victim of a very serious phishing attack .
The journalist, who has worked with the NDTV for over two decades, said that she was told in June 2020 that she would be posted as Associate Professor at the University. However, after multiple delays in the posting and âadministrative anomaliesâ in the process, she reached out to Harvard University, only to find out that she was scammed.
Former NDTV journalist Nidhi Razdan tweeted today that she had been the target of a "very serious phishing attack" and had learnt that what she believed was an offer to teach at Harvard University.
Journalist Nidhi Razdan Latest Victim Of Phishing Attack, Receives Fake Harvard University Invite To Teach Jan 15, 2021, 17:03 IST
Renowned journalist Nidhi Razdan who announced that she was quitting NDTV after 21 years to join Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences as Associate Professor, took to Twitter on Friday to share had not received an offer from Harvard University but in fact had fallen victim to a phishing attack about the fake offer.
In a note shared on Twitter, the former anchor of the primetime show explained the events, which finally led to her getting to know about the fake offer.
According to Razdan, she was made to believe her teaching tenure at the prestigious university was to begin in September 2020, which had been pushed to January 2021 due to the pandemic.