Computer/Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is crime involving a computer system and a network. The computer may be used to commit the crime or targeted. Dr. Debarati Halder and Dr. K. Jaishankar defined cybercrimes in 2011 as: "Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm, or loss, to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet (Chat rooms, emails, notice boards and groups) and mobile phones (SMS/MMS).

These sort of crimes can put a country's financial state and security as serious risk. Things such as, piracy, privacy, general hacking and child pornography are also very prominent.

^taken from crimecommission.gov.au

Advance Fee Fraud - An advanced fee fraud  is a type of fraud and one of the most common types . The scam typically involves the promise of the victim a large amount of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the person running the scam requires in order to obtain the large sum. If a victim makes the payment, the fraudster either invents a series of further fees for the victim, or simply disappears with the victims money.

Phishing - another form of fraud. Phishing is the proccess of obtaining personal infomation such as passwords or bank account infomation. It commonaly occurs as so

1. an email is sent asking for the details of a password or bank account infomation hidden behind false claims of prizes.

2. infomation is sent to the phisher

3. the phisher steals many assets of the person that was originally emailed

Auction Fraud - Auction fraud  is one of the fastest-growing crimes on the Internet. Although it can take many forms, the most common types of auction fraud  involve either promises of an item after receiving payment then failing to comply and not sending the item although payment is sent or sending an item that is completely different or lacking quality from what was promised in the auction  listing this is very common on popular sites such as ebay, gumtree and more.