We had also spoken about how quick reporting of such thefts makes it easier for the police to track the criminals and solve the case, returning your money.
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From the time the pandemic began, we have been warned about zooming cybercrime. As the outbreak has forced us to move from the real world and inhabit digital spaces, criminals shifted focus too, using cyber space as the new hunting ground, snaring people with wily cons. Several fell for these schemes, losing money in the process. Earlier edits had highlighted warnings by the cyber police about a surge in these crimes. We had also spoken about how quick reporting of such thefts makes it easier for the police to track the criminals and solve the case, returning your money.
While that is one kind of con, we are seeing large-scale scams as the pandemic takes a more desperate and deadly turn. Some rotten apples in the medical fraternity crate, doctors, paramedics, pharmacies, alternate medicine practitioners, laboratory employees have been caught milking the outbreak for money. From false reports, forgeries, hoarding, black marketing, wrong practices… we see several of these nabbed by the cops, under arrest, establishments temporarily shut down.
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We want to see that action continues even after the pandemic. They must be under check and scrutiny. If they can seek to profiteer from this situation, what makes them any better when the crisis is over too? They may try their nefarious methods at other times too. It is important that practitioners who have been arrested do not get their licences back. Other establishments will have to take accountability for their employees and see that they are not hired back into their jobs if they have indulged in wrongdoing. These are extremely serious crimes and we have to look at them undergoing full punitive action, being under constant check post Coronavirus too. Those who seek to profiteer wrongly in these hugely tragic times, may be inclined to do the same in other situations too.
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