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Madurai metropolis cybercrime Sub-Inspector R. Manikavasuki appealed to parents to show their children’s integer usage and engagement successful assorted societal media platforms.
Speaking astatine the Life Insurance Agents Federation of India (LIAFI) women league – 2025 held present connected Saturday, she said that the usage of societal media had go indispensable to enactment applicable and beryllium updated with the regular happenings successful the world.
“Alongside the beauteous side, determination is besides a shady portion to that evolving world. Even if we realise its dangers, we often autumn prey to it unknowingly,” she added.
Ms. Manikavasuki further stated it was the work of the parents to support an oculus connected their children’s integer footprint to debar falling into the trap of cyber rackets operating successful assorted ways and names.
The dangers of having highly backstage photos of miss children successful their mobile phones could not beryllium realised until they go the adjacent people of cyber frauds, she added.
“Some of the basal precautions similar having your Display Picture (DP) connected societal media handles secured, not clicking and sharing backstage pictures of oneself successful mobile phones, having constricted interaction with chartless radical connected societal media applications, among others could prevention youngsters from life-changing problems,” she noted.
“Even past week an 18-year-old assemblage miss successful Madurai who spoke to an chartless idiosyncratic connected a societal media level named ‘Snapchat’ and shared photos of her was blackmailed and threatened to stock her backstage photos,” she added.
“As the concern went retired of her hands, she had to pass her parents, who, successful turn, lodged a ailment with us. To debar specified situations, it is amended to enactment distant from it,” she added.
The script was the aforesaid for retired radical and investors, who hunt connected websites to put their wealth for amended returns.
“We are not unsocial successful the integer world. Every determination is being monitored and traced by idiosyncratic sitting successful the different portion of the world,” Ms. Manikavasuki said.
To debar being an casual people to specified cyber rackets, she said, “We should marque our searches much unafraid and safe.”
S. Marialouis, president, LIAFI – Madurai division, speaking astatine the event, said it was the archetypal specified league successful the state held lone specifically for the women agents.
“Through the league we impulse LIC to springiness concession to women agents successful their maternity break. Akin to alleviation fixed to employees, the women agents should besides beryllium fixed concession during specified times,” helium added.
Further, erstwhile the women agents were visiting the subdivision offices successful the district, to relieve them of the accent and carnal burden, they should beryllium provided a restroom with toilet facilities, helium demanded.
Also, precedence should beryllium fixed to the women agents portion they sojourn the subdivision offices for assorted works related to their clients and policies, helium said.
