Letter: City police will bind senior citizens to unique experiments to create awareness about cyber crime.
Professional retirees will educate residents about the dangers of online fraud, and in turn, they can spread the message further down.
The police have begun to educate senior citizens about the modus operandi Cybercrime and how to prevent fraud or cheated.
They taught elders to sensitive to their own family and community members.
This unique drive will be launched throughout the city where literaries will be distributed to create awareness among residents about online risk.
Senior citizens have been trained about the prevention mechanism they will teach the public.
Assistant Commissioner Police, Y Gehil told Tii, “Most senior citizens are uncomfortable with the latest technology.
Mobile phones have become part of our lives but most of the elders use it to call or read messages only.” While checking the details of the Cybercrime case, the police found that the police found that Senior citizens are the victims of the most vulnerable to loan or insurance policy fraud.
In such a scenario, the police launched a campaign “without tolerance against Cybercree” earlier this year and registered 235 firs and detected most cases.
Recently, the city police held a seminar on the Vanita Wishram campus where around 150 residents from different senior citizens clubs in the city participated.
The police presented the PowerPoint presentation provided details of 35 modus operandi with a real example and tips to prevent it.
The police prepared 40,000 booklets to be distributed to residents.
Ashok Mistry, a member of the Senior Citizen Committee said, “Senior citizens are soft targets for cyber fraudsters.
Our sensitive police not to share important information such as OTPS, card verification values (CVV) or personal identification numbers (PIN) to anyone.”
Senior citizens to build awareness of virtual world crime
