Cybercafés in Abuja devise means of stopping Cybercrime
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Cyber crime
By Happiness Obi and Abigail Williams
Abuja, Oct. 6, 2016 (NAN) Some operators of cybercafés in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, said that they had devised means of checking cyber crime in their offices.
The operators told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that they had found ways of preventing the perpetration of the crime in their cafes.
Mr Emmanuel Igor, Operator of X-Tream Café in Wuse, said that they were aware of cyber crime and had devised their own means of curbing it in the outlet.
He said one of the ways he was warding the crime in his outlet was to inform all clients through a notice posted at the entrance that no one should send any scam mail or visit any unsolicited site.
Igor said that any client caught sending any scam mail or doing such would be handed over to security agents.
“Here in X-tream café, we posted a notice at the door telling clients not to open scam mails and that anyone caught will be handed over to the necessary authority.”
He suggested that government should step into this issue of checking cyber crime and devote more efforts to fighting it.
“I want to suggest that government should deploy security agents from time to time to check different cafes at different points to check what they do and how they operate.
“ By so doing, both operators and customers will be careful with their activities”.
Another operator, Mr Kazeem, said that he would not encourage cyber crime in his café and he was very strict about it.
“When I see customers opening some sites that they are not supposed to open, I go close to them and tell them what is allowed here in the café.
“We don’t allow YouTube here because of pornographic pictures and videos”.
He said that he was not handing erring clients to security men, but would charge them a fine.
Miss Gladys, a secretary with Prestix café, said that the office had all the systems programmed in such a way that not all sites could be visited.
“What we do here is this; there is something like a gate keeping process we operate with. We programmed our system and internet in such a way that clients cannot access any site that is illegal”
Mr Gbenga Folarin, another operator, said he was not prying on activities of his clients in his café.
“I really don’t monitor my clients; all I do is to render services to them and make my profit because that is why I am here.” (NAN)
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