Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Diurnal notoriety and smooth criminals

Bangalore’s public are increasingly becoming victims of their own silly mistakes that prove to be very costly and have a disastrous impact on their financial well being.

A robbery in a Bangalore residence is becoming as unbelievable as a scene straight out of a bollywood flick. But, thanks to the ever tiring techies, as everyday passes, one gets to hear new thefts, new modus operandi and the day seems to be far when this would have stopped.

On Diwali day, a good frnd of mine finds one of his credit cards to be missing. But, by the time he calls up to suspend operations on that card, the card had already been swiped for 50k. How it happened is yet another case of extended sleep that bachelors tend to have, leaving the doors open. But, what is noteworthy in this theft is the modus operandi. The thief didn’t care to take anything apart from that one credit card, among all other cards and even left the wallet where it was. The end result was that it had already been some 3-4 hours before my frnd realized that he was missing one of his cards. This is definitely a lesson to all those plastic card maestros on why not to have many cards. If my frnd can end up in big soup, despite having fewer cards, one wonders what would have been the plight of people with umpteen cards, had such a misery dawned upon them..Food for thought ?aint it…

Criminals r getting smarter and it s high time the public are upto it.

It may not be long before such a robbery hits the Indian scenes in the form of a movie..May be it helps in enlightening people of what they can expect and how careful they need to be…

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