‘Pause, verify and report’: Haryana DGP’s toolkit to keep online frauds away
At a townhall on cybersecurity here on Sunday evening, Haryana DGP OP Singh said people need a counter-toolkit to protect themselves from online scams: the “PVR model”. The DGP said that cybercrime is no longer a marginal issue but a mass-scale threat woven into daily digital life, according to a statement.(HT_PRINT) Terming it a “behavioural vaccine” against the rising tide of digital fraud, the director general of police said people need to ‘Pause, Verify, Report’ (PVR) while responding to suspicious digital communication. The goal, he told those gathered at the event, is to give citizens a two-second advantage over cybercriminals, an edge that could prevent financial catastrophes that begin with nothing more than a message, a click, or a moment of panic. The DGP said that cybercrime is no longer a marginal issue but a mass-scale threat woven into daily digital life, according to a statement. “Scammers hack the mind before they hack the device,” he said. Almost every financial fraud message, he explained, rides on one or more of six emotional triggers: Fear, urgency, …
