DailyPost 2853
COURIERED!
Courier is a very benign service, which is generally supposed to do no harm, and get your stuff moved from one place to the other, with speed and efficiency. You also have systems to track your parcel, point to point. India is the land of innovation in its own peculiar style. We all are aware of the Jamtara cyber crime wave, where semi-literate youngsters from nowhere, were taking the country for a ride. While cyber crimes are on, it is changing the nature of the game. Courier is being referred to quite profusely and under that guise, money is being looted. NEET 2024 scandal has added another dimension to what can happen in a courier supply chain.
The dons of competitive exams racket are proficient in the way the courier system works, one of them has the experience of having worked in one of courier companies. That expertise and connection is coming in handy. The leak of the NEET 2024 question paper is directly linked to making a gaping hole in the courier system successfully and reaping the illegal gains out of it. They talk of it as if it is so simple. Once the leak is established successfully; transmission, printing, and preparation Patna style, all needs to be organised in a very professional manner at breakneck speed, to make huge monetary gains out of it. The potential candidates were roped in much earlier and money wheeling dealing was also established and completed.
A cyber crime which has taken the country by storm is known as the courier scam, more so FedEx scam, as the name of this company is used the most. Might be this company helps develop credibility in the mind of the victim, that its name is being used. The company has nothing to do with this scam. Even other couriers have nothing to do with the scam. It’s just that the reference to courier parcels is used to scare and swindle as much money as the cyber criminals can, depending on various accentuating factors. The latest in this series of big losers in this scam is a Bengaluru resident, who fell for the courier scam and in the process lost savings of Rs.1.9 crore.
The scammers posed in by now famous Mumbai Customs officials and cybercrime police. Though the scam is hyped to be sophisticated yet there is nothing sophisticated about it. It is cyber thuggery. The fake custom official caller claimed that a parcel addressed to Aditya Kumar Jain and sent abroad had been intercepted and it contained 5 passports, 200 gms of MDMA, laptops, and a sum of cash. He was also told that Mumbai cybercrime police are investigating the alleged money laundering angle. The gang intimated him with threats of legal action and requested his bank account details for verification. Frightened in this situation, Jain provided the information which was used by the scammers to drain his accounts over two days, totaling to a booty of Rs.1.95 crores. Tragedy of unaware educated professionals, who unknowingly become lame ducks. When will they learn, if ever?
CYBER CRIME AWARENESS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN NEGATED BY INHERENTLY FOOLHARDY PROFESSIONALS, EVER READY TO BE DUPED.
Sanjay Sahay
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