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I did not want to speculate, but when I think of someone wanting to humiliate and embarrass, the first name that came to mind was "IT cell". But one of my friends said, the "IT cell" usually sends rape threats, they are not so sophisticated.

You either know about the "IT cell" or please google it ... all the links on it are non-authoritative.

> personal attack on this woman with the intent to humiliate and embarrass her professionally.

This is exactly what it feels like to me.

Yeah, who would spend the 90 minutes doing a fake interview for a random phishing victim. Even one with questions that are convincing enough to her.

Assuming the scammers are Indian, and the victim would be expecting some Americans interviewing her, I wonder how they scammers got some Americans to join in the scam. Hire some American actors and tell them it's for a prank TV show maybe?

They could have scammed someone else who was also looking for a job:

"We want to hire you for an HR job, please show us your skills by practicing with this woman."

Definitely. Looks like the goal was to make her leave her position at NDTV.