September 20, 2024

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Nidhi Razdan give up NDTV to hitch Harvard University as Associate Professor. Turns out, it was all pretend

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Nidhi Razdan, former anchor at NDTV and till lately a supposed ‘Associate Professor’ of Journalism at Harvard University has now revealed on Twitter that she has been grandly scammed and phished, and that the University of Harvard by no means actually approached her with the mentioned prestigious job supply. This, even supposing Nidhi Razdan has been projected for the previous few months as a school of Harvard, on a minimum of NDTV too. Her Twitter bio too, till lately, acknowledged that she taught journalism on the Ivy league institute.In a two-page assertion, Razdan revealed the embarrassing ordeal she has been made to undergo for the previous six months. Intriguingly, why Harvard University didn’t intervene in such a rip-off all this whereas shouldn’t be but clear, regardless of the alleged appointment of Nidhi as a school member of theirs receiving a lot social media traction. The journalist captioned her assertion with a disclaimer that she wouldn’t be talking any additional of the embarrassing flip of occasions. “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,” Nidhi mentioned.The assertion by the ex-NDTV journalist acknowledged, “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, 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.” It should be remembered that Nidhi had parted methods with NDTV owing to the identical rip-off, the place she was made to consider that Harvard University had chosen her to be part of its journalism school.I’ve been the sufferer of a really severe phishing assault. I’m placing this assertion out to set the document straight about what I’ve been via. I can’t be addressing this concern any additional on social media. pic.twitter.com/bttnnlLjuh— Nidhi Razdan (@Nidhi) January 15, 2021“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. As a result, I reached out to senior authorities at Harvard University for clarity. Upon their request, I shared some of the correspondence that I believed I had received from the University,” the assertion added.Upon being contacted by Razdan, Harvard University declined having something to do with the supply made to her on their behalf. “I did not, in fact, receive an offer by Harvard University to join their faculty as an Associate Professor of Journalism. 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/social media accounts,” the phishing-victim mentioned in her assertion.The journalist, in the meantime, has filed a police criticism and has urged the legislation imposing businesses to take the strictest attainable motion in opposition to the scamsters who duped her for six lengthy months. “I hope that the police are able to get to the bottom of this attack on me at the earliest and help me bring this unsavoury incident to a swift end,” she mentioned.All this whereas, Nidhi Razdan religiously believed that she was a school member at Harvard University Her Twitter bio and graphics of TV appearances acknowledged the identical. It is certainly embarrassing state of affairs for the journalist who left NDTV after over 20 years, solely to be scammed by phishers on the web. While police should make it a degree to resolve all the fiasco, web customers should be properly conscious of what they’re getting concerned in whereas making such life-changing choices.