In a bid to safeguard Jamaican shoppers in the course of the festive Christmas season, regulation enforcement authorities are urging people to stay vigilant towards the surge in cyber and fraud-related crimes.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay, who heads the Jamaica Constabulary Drive (JCF) Company Communications Unit, issued this warning throughout a latest engagement at a JIS ‘Suppose Tank’ on December 14.
SSP Stephanie Lindsay emphasised that the Police have noticed an alarming enhance in such crimes, significantly in mild of the Christmas festivities.
Seductive scams lure victims
In accordance with SSP Lindsay famous that perpetrators have resorted to creating fictitious on-line personas masquerading as reliable suppliers of varied merchandise.
These misleading web sites are meticulously designed to look genuine and supply attractive offers which will deceive unsuspecting shoppers.
Black Friday spurs surge in scams
The spike in fraudulent actions got here to the forefront across the time of the latest Black Friday, a serious purchasing occasion that noticed a major enhance in on-line transactions.
Criminals strategically timed their operations to coincide with the surge in e-commerce actions.
Reporting inspired: A two-fold strategy
To fight this rising risk, SSP Lindsay emphasizes the significance of reporting incidents to each monetary establishments and regulation enforcement businesses.
Aside from figuring out and apprehending the culprits, reporting cyber and fraud-related crimes is important for knowledge evaluation and technique growth.
SSP Lindsay highlights that it additionally permits them to gather the info and to evaluate the magnitude of the issue, to allow them to develop methods to stop individuals from being scammed.
Criminals face penalties
On a optimistic observe, the police have made important progress in apprehending cyber and fraud criminals.
SSP Lindsay shared that a lot of individuals have been arrested and introduced earlier than the courtroom.
She added that a number of circumstances have been resolved within the courtroom, the place they should pay again.
