Cyber Cell puts up posters warning Mumbaikars about loan app scams

Cops organise an awareness camp on cyber safety at a college

The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Crime Branch has put up posters at prominent places across the city to raise awareness among the people so that they do not fall prey to cyber fraudsters and money lending apps.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Anti-Narcotics Cell and Cyber Cell Datta Nalawade told mid-day that the cops are also educating people at housing societies, near railway stations, shopping malls, bus stops, and other crowded places in the city. "We are also raising awareness in schools, colleges, government offices, etc so that they don't fall into the traps of loan apps. Our main aim is to make each Mumbaikar a smart netizen, and it is the reason we have displayed bigger posters and digital banners at highways, arterial roads, prominent places where people can easily see the message to teach them the alphabets of cyber safety," Nalawade said.

A poster on the ABC of cyber safety

"We have also installed 220 digital flexes with messages and slogans about fake loan apps at crowded places," he told mid-day. Till date 3,516 Mumbaikars have been informed about cyber awareness, Nalawade added.

This is the brainchild of Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Suhas Warke and Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey to curb the rising menace of loan apps and their goons who harass borrowers by hacking their cellphones and misusing the data to digitally harass them. Dozens of police officers are also undergoing training on cyber safety and how to deal with complex cyber cases, said sources.

3,516
No. of Mumbaikars made aware of cyber safety