Cyber frauds worry matrimonial business
New Delhi, Oct 5, 2007
Kamal Narayan
PTI
With the online match making getting popular in the country,
increasing number of cyber duping cases has become the matter
of great concern to the matrimonial web sites who plead helplessness
beyond a point in checking the menace.
The matrimonial sites came under scanner after the arrest of
one Liaquat who allegedly cheated more than fifty women into marriage
in Chennai in recently. He advertised himself as a UK-based Indian
engineer looking for a bride in an online marriage portal.
"We are cautious about the increasing misuse of matrimonial
web sites, this has forced us to undertake some additional precautionary
measures as verifying the phone numbers and residence addresses
of each user and maintaining are cord of family background,"
says Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony.Com.
Matrimonial web sites have become the preferred option for the
soul mate seekers in the country and abroad, according to an online
survey. It is a huge business and the websitesdon't want to let
their clients down by the acts some criminal minded people who
use the sites pervertedly. Meanwhile, the alarming growth of cyber
crime poses threat to the society as their global growth rate
is purportedly four per cent per week.
Vivek Sood, an expert of Criminal and Cyber Law, says cyber crime
is a menace for the global society as it jumps the geographical
boundaries speedily and its perpetrators are almost invisible
as there are rare chances to catch them.
According to Sood, the numbers of cyber crime increased from
640 in year 1993 to 2,82,000 cases in year 2000.
In a bid to remove the fear of their users, and to convince them
for safety, one of the major online match making service provider
in the country, SimplyMarry.com says they use the robust engine
to support security of all the particulars, photos, contact details,
personal information,and any fact about users.
Murugavel whose BharatMatrimony.com has recently completed its
ten years of functioning, felt that a Internet based matrimonial
service provider can't go beyond a proper limit in carrying out
security checks, so it is equally crucial for the users to remain
vigilant.
"Conduct a proper verification check, involve your parents
and relatives, avoid solitary meetings and never share much of
your personal information while proceeding with online match seeking,"
suggests Murugavel.
The Matrimonial market has registered a boom in India as its
ongoing fiscal year business estimates around 140 crores after
taking a giant leap from 70-80 crores in last year. It has evolved
into a mature and popular service provider as twelve million users
which constitute about half of the urban online users undertake
matrimony search, an online survey reveals.
The survey, conducted by JustConsult, an online research agency,
claims that matrimonial search is the second largest gainer among
online activities as it has registered growth of 33 per cent during
the last year only.
Increasing popularity of matrimonial search among the match seekers
has made the matrimonial market more competitive as the number
of these portals increasing after every day.
"We are metro-centric site that caters to soul mate seekers
of India and the NRI population. It is for, simple,safer and uncomplicated
soul mate search that provides ideal matches very fast,"
says the official Spokesperson forSimplyMarry.com.
