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Daltonganj, Dec 23: Cyber criminals are increasingly displaying brazen audacity. One such scammer, who posed as an officer from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), contacted Principal District and Sessions Judge Niraj Kumar Srivastav several weeks ago.
Despite being warned by Judge Srivastav to stop his deceptive actions, the fraudster continued to annoy the judge. To bolster his claim of being from the NIA, the scammer even mentioned the name of the Palamu Superintendent of Police, Reeshma Ramesan.
However, Judge Srivastav, being aware of the fraud, quickly recognized the caller as a cyber scammer. His suspicions were correct. A formal complaint was filed with the NIA, leading to the arrest of the conman.
Judge Srivastav himself confirmed the details of this incident, highlighting the growing threats posed by cyber criminals.
SP Reeshma Ramesan narrated a similar episode.
Reeshma Ramesan told media persons “I too got a fraud call. The caller tried to hoodwink me. But he had the taste of drubbing by me.”
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A civil case lawyer here in Daltonganj civil court lost a couple of lakhs to a cyber scammer.
The list is long and rising. Here a 2023 batch IPS officer on probation Divyansh Shukla is having interfacing and interactive sessions with the school students making them aware of the dangers of cyber crimes.
The IPS officer Divyansh Shukla has so far two interactive and interfacing sessions with the students of the two schools.
Speaking to this correspondent today Shukla said, “I had been to Oxford Public School under the Chainpur police station limits.”
“Here in this school, the level of awareness among the students about cyber scams was too high. They knew far more than many others,” added Shukla.
On being asked as to what were the concerns of the students here in this school to which Shukla said “They knew the cyber crime help number 1930. However, their initial reaction was that calling 1930 was no less horrifying. It was found to be busy all the time.”
Shukla said, “Right there one phoned 1930. It was ringing. It came as a relief.”
“There came one highly intelligent query in regard to the Bitcoin scam. I was deliberating upon the Bitcoin when came a counter-question. The query was candid. The students had knowledge of these Bitcoins,” reiterated Shukla.
He said, “The students countered it saying if companies are duly listed then where the iota of suspicion of it is. I had asked them to avoid having too many Apps and to be careful with their ratings. The students contested it saying if the Apps are listed properly then where to look upon.”
