Man’s search for meaning-20
Fake News
Fake news factory is working overtime
in our country…
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Recently after our PM
visits to the US couple of news items, purportedly carried by the New York Times were in circulation. the articles, while
praising the PM also aimed at criticizing him… both articles turned out to be
fake…
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A news item came
about TATA group celebrating its 150 years and as part of it some lucky draw
giving cars... again, a fake news.
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Some months back and
again now about a video from Kannur Airport, Kerala where a man caught fire
while charging some mobile battery device… again a fake one.
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Last week, the Mumbai
Police issued an advisory and even seen informing over the mike about receipt
of calls from numbers starting with 140 being fraudulent and dangerous… to bank
account holders.
This
is the tip of the iceberg on fake news…. all are keen to share some news to
near and dear…. Many are totally withdrawn in such matters… for them there is
no issue at all.
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Those who are in the habit of sharing others messages….
Such fake news poses threats of credibility… though intentions are good, result
is not savory…
I had a first hand
experience of attempted fraud very recently… someone called about an insurance
policy that I had taken some years back
and how that is going to be cancelled, if I don’t take some action
immediately…. They were persistent with the calls to “help” me…. I contacted
the company in question directly and learnt that the whole thing was a hoax….
Being a person with
finance background, I suspected from the first call itself and turned out to be
correct…
But I must salute the
persistence and the mode adopted by the team of crooks… different people called
and what a degree of politeness/persuasion/patience. Giving return numbers,
number of policy, name of the person to be contacted… all well made out/look genuine…
a full well-trained web indeed… how one can escape from all these frauds?
.. it is akin to planting of mines in the battle
field during wars… here battle is in the social media network… mobile phone being the “field” …. Calls after
calls come ….
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Unless one makes it a
policy of NOT picking unknown numbers, one is sure to be HONEY trapped in one
way or other… the talkers have indeed honey tongues and are well groomed, I
must acknowledge.
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Then there are
numerous messages for friendship chats… am sure someone must be falling to such
traps…… daily…like falling victims to pick pocketing or mobile lifting in
suburban trains….
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Tok… took gangs on
the highways… what all ways are being found/invented by people to hood wink the
unwary…planting drugs in the dickey of the car...
· Every field is used by Homo Sapiens to bring hardship/pain to his fellow beings…. Starting from Stock market with dud shares……. fake ornaments…. fake FDRs even…the list is endless. Drinking juice or biscuits offered in long distance trains or buses…
When country has unlimited population, criminal activities are bound to go up… where is the source for legitimate income. where are jobs for all hands… each year or in few years either a NZ or Australia is added population wise… how can any country manage?
Be happy. Be safe.
ॐ
8 AM
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