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New Delhi. In the rapidly advancing technological world, we have become dependent on electronic gadgets for important tasks like banking, online payment, online shopping. You will also not be paying in cash to order goods from the shop or online. Generally people make payments through digital means only. However, our increasing dependence on technology has given us a lot of comfort in many ways, but it has also brought with it many risks. This has increased the risk of online fraud and scams. It has been seen in many cases that a small link appears on the mobile and on clicking it, lakhs of rupees are lost from the bank. This is called online fraud, which is increasing very fast today. Scammers find some way or the other to carry out their evil intentions. Sometimes they are successful in doing this by sending links and sometimes through QR codes.
Nowadays digital arrest scams are happening a lot. This has become very common in India. Seeing its seriousness, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which created UPI, has issued an advisory regarding ‘digital arrest’ and has asked people to be cautious.
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What is digital arrest?
Now this question might be coming in your mind that is this digital arrest? In digital arrest, scammers call a person posing as a government official, police officer, CBI agent or tax officer. This can also be a video call. Scammers tell people that they have committed crimes like drug smuggling, tax evasion etc. and that they have been digitally arrested. After making fake allegations, scammers scare people into taking legal action or demanding money to withdraw the allegations.
These scammers have all the personal information like your travel history, email address, phone number, where you work. Therefore, when he starts telling about you, you start believing him and get trapped in his words. Many people accept his words as truth and pay huge amounts of money to hush up the matter. To avoid such scams, it is important that you know about their tricks and tricks in advance, so that you do not get trapped in their trap.
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How to identify scammers?
1. If you receive unusual calls from any police, CBI or other government official about a serious crime and need to take immediate legal action, this could be the first signal.
2. Scammers will try to scare you and threaten to arrest you.
3. Scammers will have all your personal information and will ask you to pay money through UPI to protect yourself from legal action.
4. Scammers can also make video calls to you, in which they can be seen in official uniform.
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How to avoid digital arrest scam?
– Do not share your personal information or UPI money with any unknown person. Because the government or the police do not ask for money from you like this.
– Do not panic when you receive such a call. If you are not able to understand anything then take help from someone else and understand the matter completely whether the allegation is true or false.
– The scammer calling first wants you to get nervous and in that nervousness you fulfill all his demands. Therefore, keep yourself calm and try to identify the caller, like you can check the name on True Caller.
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– The most important thing is that if you get such a call, then dial the National Cyber Crime Helpline number 1930 and talk to him about the matter so that the scammers can be tracked.
Tag: business news, online fraud
first published : December 18, 2024, 11:04 PM IST
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