DailyPost 2930
THE GULLIBLE & THE IGNORANT – CEO DIGITALLY DUPED
The FedEx, customs, CBI, police and of late courts has been a digital duping exercise which has been scalping good booty for quite some. Fortunately, it has been reported in the media quite extensively on a regular basis. This was happening on account of the nature of people duped and the money that was looted in these digital role play exercises. Nothing escapes WhatsApp university, so it has been making rounds there. If in the world of media blitzkrieg, if it has escaped your notice, then possibly everything can.
The added liability is that it is news that impacts you and you can fall victim anytime. If it is unknown to you that cyber crimes are on an exponential rise, then who is to be blamed. Many people find great pride in not watching, seeing, reading the news, as they find it to be toxic and nauseating. Vast majority have decided to keep themselves in the dark about the functioning of the government and the police. Might be its infra-dig for them. So it seems there is ignorance all around. The other reality is that most well placed / moneyed / influential people interact with the government and its agencies through a via-media.
I presume gullibility automatically comes with the abovementioned nature of existence. The gullible and the ignorant, that too people who have been dealing with the complexities of life and governance on a day-to-day basis. It is to the credit of the cyber scamsters that the victims don’t suspect even in such long drawn digital interactions, with changing tasks and activities, “so seamlessly interwoven.” Close on the heels of lots of victims being duped by digital role play crimes, inclusive of top shots from the IT world, now we have Vardhman Group CEO Oswal getting duped of Rs.7 crores.
The fraudsters posed as CBI officers, one of the fraudsters impersonated the CJI DY Chandrachud, a fake virtual courtroom to boot and original type fake documents to impress upon the victim that everything was official. To top it all once again “digital arrest,” something that does not exist. It is the super social engineering tool of the scamsters, where victims are falling like ninepins. Is it so easy to believe that a criminal case, investigation, trial and judgement can be done in a call center manner. And crores of rupees be transferred with no official paraphernalia. is it by paying bribes or living in vitiated governance ecosystem, people are ready to believe everything. These are totally avoidable crimes, if victims cave in here, where do we as a society go from here with the complexity of the digital work increasing by the hour? For the moment it needs a massive media campaign against Digital Arrest and the nature of ransom payments.
IT IS THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE IT KNOWN TO EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN THAT THERE IS NOTHING CALLED DIGITAL ARREST.
Sanjay Sahay
Have a nice evening.