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Usually parents and elders give advice to children and youth. However, times have changed now. Especially when it comes to technology, children are superior to their elders. This world is new to our parents and elders. Because of this, the risk of cyber fraud or cyber crime happening with them is also high. Cyber bullies mostly target such people. To avoid all this, it is necessary to give some information to the elders. So that they can avoid fraud.
Never give OTP to anyone OTP stands for One Time Password. Hackers transfer money from the bank account by getting this password from you in Yen Can manner. If someone calls and identifies himself as a bank employee or government official, your card is blocked, the account will be closed… etc. Do not give OTP. If something like this happens, go to the bank in person.
Do not click on unknown links Do not click on any unknown links in WhatsApp or messages by mistake. Often the link is circulating in the name of a big discount, gift or coupon. Do KYC on this link or your electricity connection will be cut fear is also shown. In fact, clicking on this link carries the risk of hacking the phone, infecting the phone with malware and exposing your personal data including banking to cyber criminals. So never click on such unknown link.
Police never make video calls Nowadays a fraud called digital arrest is going on, in which people are arrested through video calls by pretending to be officers of police, ED, CBI, customs etc. Make one thing clear that Police, ED, CBI, Customs or any official never make a video call to anyone like this. There is nothing like digital arrest not only in India but in the entire world. So there is no need to be afraid if such a call comes. Do not receive a video call from an unknown number If you receive a video call from an unknown number on WhatsApp, do not receive it. Now blackmailing is also done through unknown video calls. If you receive a video call, it will be dark in front and the phone will be cut in 15-20 seconds. Your face will be recorded in this time. Which will be used to create obscene content and blackmail you with it. So do not receive video calls from unknown numbers.
Money is not doubled by investing online, people of older age are being cheated in the name of investment. They are asked to invest in the stock market or otherwise, with the lure of good returns. There is also a temptation to double the money. Elders fall into temptation without thinking twice and leave their life savings in the hands of gout. So please don't fall into any such temptation. Stay away from online investing or doubling money. Consult your children, people around who know about all this and then take any decision.
Coming to WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube may not be true for those who have got a smartphone in their hands in the last four or five years, for whom the internet and social media are limited to WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Such elders believe that everything contained in it is eternal truth. The truth is that this is not the case. All these platforms are now brimming with misleading and false information. Now that the era of AI is going on, it is becoming difficult to differentiate between right and wrong. So there is no question of believing everything that comes in it to be true. That is to try to distinguish between right and wrong by using discretion.
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