Cyber crime awareness programme held at AIIMS Jammu

Jammu, Nov 9: “The innocent and ignorant people are trapped through social media platforms like the WhatsApps, Facebook, Instagrams and the details available in those platforms are used to create fake IDs and the same is used by scamsters and cyber crime actors in committing cyber crimes.”

This was stated by Cyber Investigation Centre for Excellence, Jammu, SSP, Muhammed Yasin Kichloo in his address during the cyber crime awareness programme organised by the Department of Forensic Medicine, AIIMS, Vijaypur Jammu on November 7, 2024.

The programme was chaired by the Executive Director and CEO, Dr Shakti Kumar Gupta and was organized by Professor (Dr) Dinesh Rao, HoD, Forensic Medicine.

SSP Kichloo highlighted the methods adopted by the cyber crime actors and the tricks adopted by scamsters to lure the citizens and inducing them into a well planned monetary trap to extort to their advantage. He gave numerous examples of such incidents reported in the city and the methods adopted by the Cyber Crime Division to arrest the perpetrators.

Kichloo also explained the way the AI (Artificial Intelligence) was manipulated by the cyber crime actors to deep fake the IDs of prominent people or known people to influence and lure the innocents and the ignorant and extort them or subject them into so-called “Digital arrest.”

He warned the social media users against the disadvantages of using these platforms to update their IDs and their daily activities or events and the way this information is being used to commit the crime. He also highlighted the dangers involved in official transactions with Gmail portals. He demonstrated on a website called www.tafcop.co.in , wherein one could trace by himself if any phone numbers [SIM] were issued to others in one’s IDs. He highlighted how people would casually divulge the details of IDs by discarding the Boarding passes, revealing contact details at shopping malls, sharing OTPs and logging into unauthorized sites or links in the messages. He highlighted the importance of securing Information in hospitals and flagged the measures needed to be adopted to safeguard the faculty, staff and the patients.

Kichloo shared with the participants the safety precautions to be taken and made them aware on how to handle cyber frauds. He advised the audience to report to the help line no 1930 in the event of a cyber crime and register their complaints in the following web sites: www.cybercrime.gov.in ; www.sancharsaathi.com ; www.tapcop.com and www.haveibeenpwned.com

He also informed about the web site www.haveibeenpwned.com ,wherein one can check if someone has taken control of their IDs in the form of Email or user profiles.

The cyber awareness programme was first of its kind at AIIMS Jammu. The programme was well attended by the faculty, staff, IT team and students of AIIMS, Jammu.

The ED & CEO, Dr Shakti Kumar Gupta spoke on the occasion and highlighted the importance of such programmes and suggested everyone to follow the suggestions of Kichloo. He further emphasized that to prevent or mitigate cybercrimes, awareness was vital and regular monitoring and audit should be done at the Institute.

Professor (Dr) Dinesh Rao, HoD, Forensic Medicine, AIIMS Jammu organized and coordinated the programme.