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the scammers. They also disguise their identities and create phony emails and websites to lure the naive audience,” an official at the Cyber Wing of J&K police told Kashmir Observer.
He said the bank scams have become a common way for scammers to obtain the financial and personal data of victims. This is achieved by employing deceptive techniques to coax individuals into revealing confidential information, including passwords and bank account numbers.
Law enforcement agencies, he said, are helpless because they lack a magic wand that would help them foresee who the con artists will target next.
“How could we predict beforehand as to who may be the next target of the con artists, it’s for the people to think as to how they could protect themselves from scammers, who lure them in to be tricked,” he added.
He said that the police are looking into a number of instances pertaining to online employment frauds in Kashmir, asserting that while many of the cases have been solved, some are still being investigated.
In 2020, the J&K police’s cyber wing detained a shopkeeper from north Kashmir’s Baramulla for illegally using over fifteen Facebook profiles to defraud and trick women. Under the guise of giving the victims work, the accused has amassed millions of rupees through his vile and cunning schemes. In another similar case, a man from Anantnag, claiming to be a journalist, had created a fake website of a government department to dupe gullible job seekers.
Weeks ago, a major scam involving financial fraud worth crores surfaced in Kashmir valley after investors alleged that they were duped of their hard earned money by a private company.
Notably, various recruitment firms have stepped up efforts to educate people on social media about the signs of job scams and emphasized that they do not ask for money for jobs.
recorded a minimum temperature of minus 4.5 degrees Celsius, up from the previous night’s minus 5.1 degrees Celsius, they said.
Gulmarg skiing resort in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 3.5 degrees Celsius up from the previous night’s minus 4.2 degrees Celsius, the officials said.
Qazigund recorded a low of minus 3 degrees Celsius while Kokernag town saw the minimum settle at minus 2 degrees Celsius and Kupwara recorded a minimum of minus 2.6 degrees Celsius.
Kashmir has been going through a prolonged dry spell, and December month was 79 per cent deficit on rainfall.
There has been no snowfall in most plain areas of Kashmir while upper reaches of the valley have also received lesser than usual amount of snow by the end of December.
The meteorological department has said there is a possibility of very light snow over isolated extreme higher reaches on Friday.
While the weather would remain mainly dry weather till January 7 evening, there is a possibility of light snow over isolated areas in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir on January 8-9, it said.