To educate the people about the cyber crime assuming alarming proportions across the state and about how they can protect themselves from the fraudsters, out to swindle them of their hard-earned money, SSP special task force (STF), Uttarakand organised a workshop in Basant Vihar police station on Friday evening. Those running the workshop apprised the people gathered there of the details as to how they fall prey to the cyber crimes or how they commit such crimes unintentionally. Aside from the locals, circle officer city-1 was among the police officers present. The locals asked the police officers questions about different aspects of the crime which the police officers present replied in details to clear confusion lurking in the minds of the people about the crime that is a new phenomenon for the state.
Cyber crime police station inspector Ashok Kumar Tyagi explained the nature of the cyber crimes in details. Sub inspector Ved Prakash Uniyal explained how the people could keep cyber crimes at bay while operating social sites, including facebook and twitter. He said that a few tips rightly followed could help them against being enmeshed in the cyber crime nets, cleverly laid out by the fraudsters.
“The cyber act being in force, committing cyber crimes is a punishable offence. One inadvertently involved in it would have to prove his innocence later.
But he would have to face the music till he is exonerated from the crime in accordance with the provisions of the law. So one had better keep himself out of the vicious vortex of the cyber crime,” he said.
Sub- inspector Marut Shah explained to those gathered at the workshop as to how they could protect themselves from the frauds involving the banks they have accounts in and the ATMs they avail.
“One should be on guard against disclosing details of mobile banking to any person, no matter whether he is a stranger or one known to him. If one refrains from sharing such details he is somehow safe from the clutches of the fraudsters waiting for a slip on his part to dupe him of his hard-earned money,” he said.
SI Bharat Shah cautioned them against being trapped in the online frauds that allure them in the name of lucrative lottery offers, job offers and insurance offers.