India, April 10 -- An IIT grad took to LinkedIn to warn others about a "new scam in the market". He claimed that a scammer impersonating him tried to dupe his colleague of thousands of rupees by asking him to buy gift cards costing Rs.10,000 each. The post has sparked a discussion on cybersecurity.

Aaditya Aanand wrote that his teammate Anupam received an email that seemed to be from Aanand. However, upon closer look, Anupam felt something was off about the email and decided to contact Aanand via WhatsApp. The email that Anupam received said, "Why haven't you responded to my last email?"

Soon they realised that it was a scam and decided to play along. "The person posing as me claimed that I was planning to surprise our team with Apple G...