Cyber-crimes committed against
persons include various crimes like transmission of
child-pornography, cyber porn, harassment of a person using a computer
such as through e-mail, fake escrow scams.
The trafficking,
distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including
pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important
Cyber-Crimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to
humanity can hardly be explained. Cyber-harassment is a distinct
Cyber-crime. Various kinds of harassment can and do occur in cyberspace,
or through the use of cyberspace. Different types of harassment can be
sexual, racial, religious, or other. Persons perpetuating such
harassment are also guilty of cyber-crimes.
Cyber harassment as a crime also
brings us to another related area of violation of privacy of citizens.
Violation of privacy of online citizens is a Cyber-crime of a grave
nature. No one likes any other person invading the invaluable and
extremely touchy area of his or her own privacy which the medium of
internet grants to the citizen. There are certain offences which affect
the personality of individuals can be defined as:
Harassment via E-Mails:
This is very common type of harassment through sending letters,
attachments of files & folders i.e. via e-mails. At present
harassment is common as usage of social sites i.e. Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn etc. increasing day by day.
Cyber-Stalking: It is
expressed or implied a physical threat that creates fear through the
use to computer technology such as internet, e-mail, phones, text
messages, webcam, websites or videos.
Defamation: It
involves any person with intent to lower down the dignity of the person
by hacking his mail account and sending some mails with using vulgar
language to unknown persons mail account.
Hacking: It means
unauthorized control/access over computer system and act of hacking
completely destroys the whole data as well as computer programs. Hackers
usually hacks telecommunication and mobile network.
Cracking: It is act
of breaking into your computer systems without your knowledge and
consent and has tampered with precious confidential data and
information.
E-Mail Spoofing: A
spoofed e-mail may be said to be one, which misrepresents its origin. It
shows it’s origin to be different from which actually it originates.
SMS Spoofing: Spoofing
is a blocking through spam which means the unwanted uninvited messages.
Here a offender steals identity of another person in the form of mobile
phone number and sending SMS via internet and receiver gets the SMS
from the mobile phone number of the victim. It is very serious
cyber-crime against any individual.
Carding: It means
false ATM cards i.e. Debit and Credit cards used by criminals for their
monetary benefits through withdrawing money from the victim’s bank
account. There is always unauthorized use of ATM cards in this type of
cyber-crime s.
Cheating & Fraud: It
means the person who is doing the act of cyber-crime i.e. stealing
password and data storage has done it with having guilty mind which
leads to fraud and cheating.
Child Pornography: In this cyber-crime defaulters create, distribute, or access materials that sexually exploit underage children.
Assault by Threat: It
refers to threatening a person with fear for their lives or lives of
their families through the use of a computer network i.e. E-mail, videos
or phones.
