Tag : Jamtara

Mumbai: Scams - big or small - have always been a part of the society. While earlier there were thugs duping people, with the advancement of technology, the scams have diversified into online scams of varied nature of which phishing scams are prime. The soon-to-be-released second season of the popular webseries 'Jamtara' tells the story and modus operandi of such scams, the people involved and how it affects the life of everyone, who are part of it. IANS recently spoke with the show's creators -- Trishant Srivastava (writer) and Soumendra Padhi (director) -- about the nature of these scams, the upcoming season of the show and their findings while they were piecing together the information to tell a compelling story. One would wonder about the people behind such scams being 12 to 15-year-old school dropouts. As per the 2011 Census, the city of Jamtara in Jharkhand had an average literacy rate of 63.73 per cent, lower than the national average of 74.4 per cent. In such a scenario, crime becomes the prime outlet to make money and Jamtara is no different as Trishant says, "The boys, who operate from Jamtara, don't have any training for these scams. For them it's just trial and error. They just learnt it from somewhere and got better at it." The cash flows have swollen to the point where the scammers forget where they buried the money. "A lot of times these boys forget where they have buried the money so there have been instances where bags full of cash have been recovered after the scammers forgot to take their share," Soumendra, the show director, adds. But, like other crimes, phishing has its own set of challenges when it comes to countering them. "The thing with these scams is that the person itself is willing to fall into it as ...