Goa’s cybercrimes against women surge

PANAJI: Cybercrimes against women have more than doubled in Goa in the last one year, a senior police official said, citing that women have made themselves vulnerable to fraudsters on social media. Talking to reporters, Superintendent of Police Sunita Sawant said the main reason for women falling prey to cyber criminals is that they are making themselves vulnerable on social media. The Goa police had registered 90 cases of cybercrimes against women in 2022, while the state had reported 38 such cases in 2021, she said. The number of such cases has more than doubled over a period of one year, the official said.