Cybercrime is any criminal offence that is facilitated by, or involves the use of, electronic communications or information system, including any electronic device, computer, or the Internet. The term, cybercrime, is a general term that covers crimes like phishing, credit card frauds illegal downloading, industrial espionage, child pornography, cyber bullying, cyber stalking, cyber terrorism, creation and/or distribution of viruses, spam and so on.
Let us talk about more common cybercrimes.
Cyber Trolls and Bullying
Cyber trolls refer to a person who purposely posts opposing-, sarcastic-, demeaning- or insulting- comments about something or someone with an aim of targeting a person online. The provocative messages posted this way are also called troll. So the word troll can refer to a person who is doing it and it may refers to that derogatory comments posted by a troll. Trolling is a cybercrime and is closely related to cyber bullying. In fact, it is a form of cyber bullying.
Cyber Bullying
Cyberbullying occurs when someone uses the Internet, a cell phone, email, instant messaging, chat rooms, or social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter etc., to harass, demean, embarrass, or intimidate someone else. It is commonly asked a crime committed by teens too, as their growing access to electronic communication makes it possible to make fun of or ostracize others. The problem spreads like wildfire as the bully can hide behind the anonymity of a login identify, while encouraging other kids to join in the "fun" of harassing the victim.
Cyberbullying is a crime, garnering such criminal charges as harrassment, libel, assault, and even terrorism. In addition to criminal charges, cyberbullies may be held responsible for the damaged they do in a civil lawsuit, where they may be ordered to pay for it.
Cyber Stalking
This is a kind of online harassment wherein the victim is subjected to a barrage of online messages and emails. Typically, these stalkers know their victims and instead of resorting to offline stalking, they use the Internet to stalk. A cyber stalker relies upon the anonymity afforded by the Internet to allow them to stalk their victim without being detected.
Cyber stalking often do this to trouble their victims :
• They collect all personal information about the victim such as name, family background, telephone numbers of residence and work place, daily routine of the victim, address of residence and place of work, date of birth etc.
• The stalker may post this information on any filthy/obscene or illegal websites posing as if the victim is posting this information.
• People of all kind from nook and corner of the World, who come across this information, start calling the victim at his/her residence and/or work place for many filthy/obscene reasons.
• Some stalkers subscribe the e-mail account of the victim to innumerable obscene or illegal sites because of which victim starts receiving such kind of unsolicited e-mails.
• Some stalkers keep on sending repeated e-mails asking for various kinds of favors or threaten the victim.
• Stalkers follow their victim from board to board. They "hangout' on the same social networking site as their victim, many times posting notes to the victim, making sure the victim is aware that he/she is being followed.
• Stalkers will almost always make contact with their victims through email having friendly or threatening content. The stalker many times uses multiple names when contacting the victim.
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