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8 year old boy orders AK-47 rifle online: Till now you might have ordered food items, gadgets or other household items online but an 8 year old boy ordered AK-47 online through the dark web. The surprising thing is that the delivery of this rifle reached his home also. This amazing story has been told by the boy's mother herself.
Actually this matter is from Netherlands. The woman claimed that her 8-year-old son bought an AK-47 online without her knowledge. When this rifle reached home she was surprised. When he quickly gathers information, he discovers that behind it all lies the dark world of the internet, the Dark Web, where such illegal activities are carried out openly.
Dark web is that part of the internet where content cannot be accessed through search engines like Google, Bing. This requires permission on a specific browser. The content present on the dark web does not come under the purview of any law. Through this, many illegal activities including drugs and weapons are carried out.
It works on onion routing technology, which protects users from tracking and monitoring. There are also scammers who sell banned items at cheap prices. Here people even lose lakhs of rupees in buying cheap goods. The woman's son fell into the trap of one such fraudster and ordered a rifle online.
In an interview with Euronews, Barbara Zeman, mother of the boy who bought the AK-47, told how he got caught in the clutches of cyber crime at an early age. Barbara revealed that her son spent a lot of time on computers and started hacking at the age of 8. He even said that hackers used his son for money laundering.
According to Barbara, whenever we went to our son's room, he was playing online games and talking in code words. The situation became worse when it came to light that the son had ordered an AK-47. In an attempt to avoid customs the son shipped the gun from Poland to Bulgaria, then it ended up in the Netherlands.
Barbara further said that I handed the rifle over to the local police department. After investigation, the police did not take any legal action against my son. Investigation revealed that he had fallen into the trap of international hackers. After this incident, Barbara decided to take cyber security training herself. Now he is a cyber special volunteer in the Dutch police.
Barbara says that nowadays it is very easy for anyone to become a victim of cyber crime because most children have laptops and mobiles. One careless click can put them in the clutches of hackers. In such a situation, awareness is very important.