With the increasing use of technology and online activities, the number of cybercrimes around the globe and in Bangladesh is on the rise. Incidents like hacking Facebook and email accounts are taking place every day. People are increasing their personal security risk by falling into the trap of various types of spy links. Mobile banking has made our life much easier and simpler. However, many people unknowingly fall into the trap that the hackers lay for them, disguised as an intimate relationship. They send different app download links and deceivingly collect the OTP (One Time Password) from their targets to hack the accounts.
Sometimes, cyber criminals hack social media accounts and blackmail their owners for money. Fake websites, scams, fraudulent phone calls and messages by digital thieves are giving people a hard time protecting their important data or being safe from all kinds of cyber deceptions.
Creating public awareness is the most important thing to control cybercrimes. If one is victimised, everyone in one's family should stand by the victim and work hand in hand to ensure justice. Also, we have to focus on creating strong public opinion against cybercrime on a large scale like including cyber awareness topics in the textbooks. How cybercrime victims can get legal help should be widely disseminated in simple and understandable language. For this, our media should also come forward.
SM Ahmed Razin,
Student of Jagannath University, Dhaka,
robinrazin55@gmail.com