The tweet that I have chosen to write about is from Pakistan’s current president, Dr. Arif Alvi. In the tweet, Dr. Arif Alvi is stating that he has become aware and has taken “serious notice” of the rising trend of online banking fraud where scammers use banking contact information and impersonate bank officials to steal customers’ information and their money. One thing that Dr. Arif Alvi admits in this tweet is that online banking fraud is on a upward trend, meaning that any measures that they are employing to combat the fraud is not working. This brings me to my next point, Dr. Arif Alvi offers no comfort to citizens that they have a plan to combat online fraud or that they are even taking any measures at all. This aligns with what we have been talking about in class about southern Asian countries like Pakistan not being able to take full advantage of the internet and media and having numerous flaws like online safety issues.
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Aaron Metz
President Dr. Arif Alvi has taken serious notice of the rising trend of online banking frauds where fraudsters obtain contact details of bank clients and impersonate bank officials to obtain account and banking information from them, and using such details swindle money out pic.twitter.com/xNU4ifGxow
— The President of Pakistan (@PresOfPakistan) January 21, 2023