In view of increasing ATM and bank fraud cases and other cyber crime cases occurring through various social networking sites, officers of the cyber crime police station hosted a workshop on Saturday to educate the students and employees of Swami Rama Himalayan Institute and Engineering College, Jollygrant, Doiwala about how to pre-empt such frauds through precautions and awareness of the modus operendi of such crimes.
Students were also informed about what precautions they should take while visiting various social networking sites.
Inspector Bharat Singh said that following the direction of Cyber Crime Police Station in-charge SSP P Renuka Devi, such workshop as part of its awareness campaign was held at above college.
Singh said that with the advancement of technology and increase in its accessibility, large numbers of people are using social networking sites and sometimes they indulge in wrongdoing using the technology knowingly or unknowingly.
He said that currently cyber crimes and bank frauds through online banking, online shopping, schemes, ATMs are increasing.
He informed the gathering about how they would keep their secret data/documents secure while working in the computers. They should not use unauthorized PAN card in their computer. Anti-virus and firewall should be updated from time to time. They should change their password from time to time.
He told students and employees to use ATM card cautiously. “You should not inform anyone about your secret password. Within ATMs, strangers should not be asked to withdraw your money. You should change your secret password from time to time. If your cash is withdrawn by anyone you should inform the cyber crime police station promptly,” he said.
He also talked about the social media in details while stressing that they should not provide mobile phone number, email id, photo, identity card and other important information to others.