What can tech creators do about online scams?

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“You should have a show called Scam Guru.” At the India Mobile Congress, Tech journalist Rajiv Makhni answers Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s question about safeguards against the negative uses of technology. Brut is the culture partner of the India Mobile Congress. #IMC2024

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00:00I've actually got a call myself saying you've been misusing your phone, there's abusive

00:05language and we're about to suspend your phone, you're not going to be digitally arrested

00:10by CBI or Blue Dot or whoever is the latest scam.

00:15How is it that we can proliferate the story of Sanchar Sathi or Chakshu in terms of being

00:24able to create, to make sure that we safeguard against the negative uses of technology?

00:32One of the things that I've been doing now for almost a year and a half is that every

00:36single week I do one Instagram reel, I'm sure all of you who actually do follow and have

00:43seen it, I do one Instagram reel talking about which is the biggest digital scam or otherwise

00:49that is coming up and simplifying it down to what is it that you can safeguard.

00:55For instance, these digital arrests, we took that reel out again, 10, 12 million views.

01:00What I find very startling about that entire thing is that when people watch that, I think

01:07it is fear that makes them watch it.

01:09But the final emotion, as you spoke about, emotion is the most important part, is that

01:15they come out of it saying, you know, oh my God, I didn't know that.

01:19Now I know it.

01:20The shareability of that is immense.

01:24We've tracked that down that if there are 10 million views, there are almost 15 to 16

01:29million people that have also been, have got it as shares.

01:33And that's all that it really is all about.

01:36If you know that there is, this is the modus operandi of a particular scam, and you know

01:41that you're not going to be digitally arrested by CBI or Blue Dart or whoever is the latest

01:48scam, the latest one I've heard is TRI.

01:51I've actually got a call myself saying, you've been misusing your phone, there's abusive

01:56language and we're about to suspend your phone, press one.

02:01You know that's not going to be, but how many people, vulnerable people do not know?

02:06I mean, what is the biggest fear?

02:08Your phone will be suspended in a few seconds unless you press one, right?

02:12But if we can actually get that information out, use a little bit of humor, a little bit

02:16of entertainment, but leave you with the fact that I know this now, and I will share

02:22it with friends, family, and anybody I know.

02:25That has become the fastest way to make sure that these scams and the imagination of scamsters

02:31of hats off is becoming unbelievable.

02:35We've got to be more imaginative than them to make sure that everybody knows about this.

02:40So I have to say that once a week, now my team is telling me we've got to go to two

02:46scams a week because there are too many new ones that are all coming in.

02:50So that's one of the things that we're doing and we're really, really going.

02:54So I did a show called Gadget Guru, Cell Guru.

02:58Unfortunately, now it's a negative one.

03:00People say, I really like your this thing, you should have a show called Scam Guru.

03:04I don't know whether they mean me or the content that I put out.

03:10I don't know whether they mean me or the content that I put out.

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