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MUMBAI: Bollywood histrion Akshay Kumar recounted connected Friday however his 13-year-old daughter, Nitara, dealt with intersexual harassment portion gaming online.A fewer months ago, portion playing an online crippled that allowed strangers to interact, she was befriended by idiosyncratic who initially engaged her with affable messages.“The idiosyncratic started with polite messages similar ‘thank you’, ‘well played’, and ‘fantastic’. He seemed similar a bully person. After immoderate time, helium asked if she was antheral oregon female, and erstwhile she replied ‘female’, the code of the speech changed,” Kumar said. The alien asked his girl to nonstop him nude pictures of herself.“My girl instantly unopen down the crippled and informed my wife. Thankfully, she didn’t hesitate to stock what happened,” the histrion said, speaking astatine the inauguration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month astatine the Maharashtra Police headquarters.The histrion said the incidental reflects a cybercrime signifier wherever predators archetypal physique spot and past effort to exploit minors — a modus operandi that often ends successful extortion and successful tragic cases, suicide.CM Devendra Fadnavis emphasised the value of reporting cybercrime connected helplines 1930 and 1945 wrong the Golden Hour — which is the hr instantly aft the transgression has occurred. This, helium said, is important successful cases of cyber fraud, arsenic it improved the likelihood of recovering stolen money.
He said the authorities plans to rise consciousness among schoolhouse and assemblage students connected cybercrime. Fadnavis launched 2 resources that volition beryllium utilized successful this consciousness run — a documentary connected cyber information and a comic publication for children called ‘Cyber Warrior’.Fadnavis said the authorities needed to heighten capabilities to antagonistic deepfakes. He said fraudsters usage AI to instrumentality radical done phishing, OTP scams, deepfakes, dependable and look cloning. “We stock idiosyncratic accusation connected societal media and done online transactions and outgo platforms. Once cookies are accepted, idiosyncratic information tin beryllium misused, starring to fraud, extortion and cyberbullying,” helium said.Also contiguous astatine the ceremonial were histrion Rani Mukerji, VJTI dean of R&D and consultancy Dr Farooq Kazi, subordinate prof astatine IIT Bombay Manjesh Hanawal, and IAS and IPS officers. Activists moving to rise consciousness connected cybercrime were felicitated.
