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Why Fraud Calls Work: The Psychology of Trust & Authority | Sunil Bajpai | FO543 Raj Shamani
📅 1 August 2026 at 09:09 pm · Hosted by Figuring Out
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Sunil Bajpai, Chief Trust Officer, on why India loses 54,000 crore rupees a year to scams and why it cannot be stopped.
He explains:
◼ Why your brain stops thinking rationally within 90 seconds of receiving a scam call
◼ How the digital arrest scam works step by step, from first contact to final payment
◼ How to identify a scam call before you get trapped
◼ Why a Padma Bhushan winner transferred crores after one phone call convinced him he was under arrest
◼ How scammers buy your Aadhaar number and phone number for just 100 rupees on the open market
◼ Why scam rings have no single boss and operate as a fully decentralised industry
◼ Digital arrest scam India how it works
◼ What happened when victims kept paying bribes to fake officers even after the first payment cleared
◼ Why he believes banks, telecom companies, and regulators have almost no financia
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