Be alert, do not fall prey to cybercriminals: Dakshina Kannada SP

Be alert, do not fall prey to cybercriminals: Dakshina Kannada SP

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, March 1, 2025: Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police N. Yathish on Friday asked people to be aware of c and not fall prey to them.

Inaugurating the summit on ‘Forensic Spectrum’, organised by School of Social Work’s Post-Graduate Department of Criminology and Forensic Science here, Mr. Yatish said it was sad to see educated people, including police personnel, falling prey to cybercriminals operating far away from Mangaluru. People continue to be extorted by fraudsters to non-existent ‘digital arrest’

“Despite lot of awareness programmes and information by police about modus operandi of cybercriminals, people continue to be cheated,” he said. While asking people to be alert, Mr. Yathish said State police is continuously working to upgrade police personnel with latest technological tools to investigate and trace accused involved in cyber fraud cases.

Mr. Yatish said many as 400 scene of crime officers working in Forensic Science Department have been trained in not just traditional evidence collection methods but also in collecting digital evidence.

Talking on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Digital Forensics’, Ananth G. Prabhu, professor and principal investigator, Cyber Security and Digital Forensics Centre of Excellence, Sahyadri Engineering College, asked students to stay guarded against sharing sensitive information on WhatsApp as fraudsters can get access it even if the user deletes information from his/her mobile phone.  

He asked students to set 16 word password, which is combination of alphabets, numerical and symbols, which will be difficult for fraudster to crack. Mr. Prabhu asked students to open tafcop.sancharsaarathi.gov.in and enter his/her mobile number, which will reflect the SIMS purchased using user’s Aadhar number. If more SIMs are reflected, action should be taken to remove the unauthorised connections, Mr. Prabhu said.