CHENNAI: Over 60 per cent of teenage girls are victims of cyber crime but the offenders mostly go scot free, Cyber Society of India (CSI) president Rajendran said on Saturday, quoting a recent report.
While cyber crimes are increasing at the rate of 22 per cent, it is 12 per cent for normal offences, he said at a one-day workshop on ‘Cyber Crimes: Guard yourself in cyber space,’ organised at Anna University here. However, he regretted that the conviction rate in cyber crimes remain at a paltry 5 percent as against 10 percent in other offences.
Young girls get attracted towards social media and post their photos, which can be easily misused, he added.
JN Misra CEO, Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), Mumbai, recalling his own experience of facing online fraud, said “I went to Hyderabad recently and stayed in luxury hotel with WiFi facility. I made a transaction using the hotel’s network. At around 11.48 pm, I got an SMS alert about the failed transaction attempt twice. So, it’s a lesson for people not to do banking transaction using public WiFi connections.”
Detection of cyber offenses has improved so are the offenders, he quipped. He advised the public to immediately report about cyber crime to the concerned authorities without choosing to ignore them.
