Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Alok Kumar has said that cybercrimes have been on the rise as compared to robbery in the recent times, partially because of people’s greed.
“People’s greed, along with other factors, is responsible for the rise in cybercrimes. Online fraud is easy as compared to conventional robbery. Fraudsters take advantage of people’s ignorance of cyber mechanisms and their greed to rob them of their money. After the advent of Artificial Intelligence, cybercrime menace has gathered momentum,” the officer said, advising people to protect their personal details such as photos, videos and biometric data in Aadhaar which could be used for online crimes by criminals.
He was speaking at an interaction with the public at the office of the Superintendent of Police in Bidar on Tuesday evening.
