Type Of Cyber Crimes

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s ofAccording to IC3 which is a joint effort between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)/Bureau of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2010 the most common victim complaints concerning internet crimes were; non-delivery of merchandise or non-payment for products, scams involving impersonating the FBI and identity theft. Other top complaints in 2010 included; computer crimes, miscellaneous fraud, advance fee fraud, spam, auction fraud, credit card fraud, and overpayment fraud. To briefly explain some of these top complaints the IC3 considers computer crimes as those that target computer networks or devices or those crimes that are facilitated by devices or computer networks. IC3 considers miscellaneous fraud as a wide range of scams that defraud the public these can include; fraudulent sweepstakes, work at home schemes, and phony contests. Advance fee fraud occurs when criminals convince the victim to pay a fee to receive an item worth value but then the item is not delivered to the victim. An overpayment fraud is an incident in which the victim receives money that is not valid, and deposits this into their account, and sends the excess or a certain percentage to the sender (Internet Crime Report Center). According to Dr. Larry Ponemon, founder and chairman of the Ponemon Institute, “every corporation is vulnerable to thousands of cyber-attacks that occur daily across all industries, causing information theft, disruption to business operations and serious financial loss,” (Fucanan, 2010). According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute the most common threats to corporations include theft of intellectual property, compromises to bank accounts (phishing), distribution of viruses, and confidential information leaked onto the internet (Martinez-Cabrera, 2010). What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is any

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