DailyPost 2790
SCAMSTER’S DIGITAL ARREST
That cyber crimes can be committed at will, in wholesale, by semi-literates, from forlorn places, is the story of Jamtara. It proved that the ease of social engineering knows no bounds and it is better to follow this mode of crime rather than get embroiled in physical and complicated technical modus operandi. And you get the booty in no time. Might be this was the kernel on which far more innovative cyber ways of duping people was developed and for much bigger amounts. That people don’t know the way law works or enforcement agencies operate is at the crux of FedEx types cases, which are going on in full swing.
The detailed reports in the media are not making a difference to gullible potential victims. They remain as gullible as ever. Sometimes, one feels that they keep waiting to get duped. Any role play with drama props can fool a large number of people in this country. Is lack of quality real world education a silent killer? In this ever evolving cyber crime story, one which is turning out to be the money spinner, is the FedEx story with what is termed as the Digital Arrest. This could go down as the most innovative modus operandi in the history of crime, not only cyber crime. The money duped is in the tune of crores.
Worse still, the lame ducks, if we may call them so, are experienced professionals having served for decades in business corporations. How can you accept somebody’s diktat in your own home, being virtually dictated for days together? How can a person accept that some illegal parcel has been sent by him, when he has not sent any? How can a person transfer loads of money just on some virtual manipulation and make believe story? You become the real facilitator of crime. Believing that there is something called Digital Arrest is the icing on the cake. If this were to be the mental make of the victims, there is likelihood that this genre of crime is not going down in the near future.
Close on the heels of the case of an ex.Infosys employee’s case, this has turned out to be a crazier case. An executive from FedEx told the victim that a parcel was sent in his same to Taiwan containing five passports, 3 kg of clothes, 150 gms of MDMA. In this regard a case was registered. Then enters a fake DCP on the scene. He was threatened to be arrested if he moved out and asked him to lock himself in a room and then make a video call and the ordeal started. A prop of a police station was there on the criminals side. All sorts of criminal charges were flaunted. He was made to believe that his money needs to be verified and transactions happened to a total of Rs. 3.8 crores. Promising refund in 30 mins, the cyber crime came to a close. The ordeal went on from the 5th to the 10th of May.
WE ARE IN THE VORTEX OF CYBER CRIMES COMMITTED BY SIMPLE BEHAVIOURAL TECHNIQUES.
Sanjay Sahay
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