Jamshedpur : With the city going hi-tech, cybercrime cases are also on the rise. In the city, 44 cases of cybercrime have been reported in three months. The crime has shot up this year, going by the increasing number of petitions and complaints that the police are receiving.
Sources in the city police said complaints of hacking of email accounts and complaints of people falling prey to phishing mails or becoming a victim of other online frauds have been reported this year.
The latest trend in cyber crime is that of sending e-mails announcing job offers i.e., appointment letters from reputed companies wherein the prospective candidates are asked to responding to the mail for a job in upcountry destinations with reputed corporates.
“Jamshedpur is one of the most vulnerable cities in the country as people here are generally ignorant,” says Rakesh Choudhary, a cyber security expert.
“As per our findings passwords are usually very ‘weak’. There is no concept of ‘penetration tests’ in the city in which IT systems are challenged by professional hackers and then the loopholes are rectified. Besides, pirated software programmes and other factors have also added to the problem,” said Choudhary.
A senior police official pointed out that people should be aware of the recruitment processes of major companies in order to avoid being duped. They should also come forward to prefer a complaint rather than withdrawing into a shell and being secretive about the whole incident. Their complaints will help saving other people from becoming victims, he added.
Meanwhile in its latest efforts to keep crimes and criminals at bay, the East Singhbhum district police recently initiative to turn police personnel computer savvy.
He pointed out once a sizable number of policemen and police officials are trained to handle computer, then they would feed data about the criminals will be computerised. Of the total 150 cyber crime cases under IPC sections in the country, Pune had 26 cases while Mumbai registered 41. 347 cases were registered in 2010. Hyderabad (51), Delhi (41), Bangalore (40) and Jamshedpur (27) have a high number of cases.
