...in their life through the use of gadgets such as the computer, smartphones and tablets to name a few. The ability to pay bills online, shop for clothing and food, communicate with family and friends through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have most people young and old taking the leap of faith onto the internet bandwagon. In fact, having access to such a vast array of information has open up a plethora of opportunities to include finding love online. While most people welcome this opportunity to find their true love using this alternative there are those who do not share their enthusiasm. Neil Postman the author of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology believes that America has become too reliant on technology and as such has become a slave to it. He writes that the acceptance of technology as the master means that “a new kind of social order” is inevitable and will lead to “rapid dissolution of much that is associated with traditional beliefs (1992, pg. 71). “ Postman’s beliefs regarding America’s obsession with technology has not stifled people in their pursuit of romance; despite the risks involved such as scams, identity fraud and the stigmas that have been identified with this type of romance, people continue to seek true love. Finding love the traditional way such as face to face is still the preferred method for some people, therefore they do not look upon online romances favorably. In a study conducted by Anderson in 2005, 175...
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...The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development projects of the Philippine government, mostly on the local level. The scam was first exposed in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 12, 2013,[1] with the six-part exposé of the Inquirer on the scam pointing to businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles as the scam's mastermind after Benhur K. Luy, her second cousin and former personal assistant, was rescued by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on March 22, 2013, four months after he was detained by Napoles at her unit at the Pacific Plaza Towers in Fort Bonifacio.[2] Initially centering on Napoles' involvement in the 2004 Fertilizer Fund scam, the government investigation on Luy's testimony has since expanded to cover Napoles' involvement in a wider scam involving the misuse of PDAF funds from 2003 to 2013. It is estimated that the Philippine government was defrauded of some ₱10 billion in the course of the scam,[1] having been diverted to Napoles, participating members of Congress and other government officials. Aside from the PDAF and the fertilizer fund maintained by the Department of Agriculture, around ₱900 million in royalties earned...
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...Internet Fraud: An Overview of Classifications, Government Actions, and Consumer Protection December 14, 2006 Internet Fraud: An Overview of Classifications, Governmental Actions, and Consumer Protection Internet fraud is an increasing threat to our technological society, which thrives on the advances and benefits of the Internet and e-commerce. With the increased growth and dependence of the Internet, creative individuals have found ways of conveying fraudulent schemes as legitimate goods and services. Not only does Internet fraud cause harm to individuals and institutions, but it also damages the consumer confidence of valid Internet businesses and e-commerce. There are many forms of Internet fraud which Internet patrons need to be aware of and cognizant of. This paper will explore major classifications of Internet fraud, provide information on how to deal with Internet fraud, relay actions taken by the government to thwart Internet fraud and prosecution thereof, and also take a detailed look into one type of Internet fraud especially, identity theft. According to the Department of Justice (http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/text/Internet.htm), Internet fraud is any type of criminal scheme that uses one or more components of the Internet to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions. Major types include; online action and retail scams, business opportunities...
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...can someone get caught in participating in a cybercrime? Cybercrime any kind of crime committed via the internet or on a computer network. Cybercrime can be anything from hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity theft, to credit card account thefts. All are considered to be cybercrimes when the illegal activities are committed through the use of a computer and the Internet. How bad could cybercrime really be? “Cybercrime is a type of crime that not only destroys the security system of a country but also its financial system.” (Real Cost of Cyber Crime) Cybercrime is the type of crime that is hard to trace, but once traceable it then opens a whole can of worms. Once our government finds out about cybercrimes usually they find more than what they were looking for to begin with. In the past there have been some cybercrime laws that were insufficient but the law enforcement agencies and government have proposed many plans to help fight cybercrime. Once a cybercrime has been committed and traced back to the hacker punishment is required. “Cybercrime must be dealt with very seriously because it causes a lot of damage to businesses and the actual punishment should depend on the type of fraud used. The penalty for illegally accessing a computer system ranges from 6 months to 5 years. The penalty for the unofficial modification on a computer ranges from 5 to 10 years.”(Real Cost of Cyber Crime) There are different types of cybercrimes such as: telecommunication service...
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...10 STEPS FOR SAFE WEB SURFING 1. Education – Educate yourself about the types of scams on the Internet so that you are better equipped to defeat them. Read up on the latest phishing scams, for example, and learn how to recognize them. 2. Use a firewall – Firewalls monitor traffic between your computer or network and the Internet and are your first and best line of defense. Most operating systems come with a firewall, but it won't help you if you don't activate it. 3. Click with caution – When checking e-mail or instant messaging, be careful not to click on links in messages from people you don't know. Such links could connect to phony websites designed to solicit personal information, or they could download Trojan horses or other malware designed to steal personal information. Even if the message is from someone you do know, it could still contain a computer virus; check with the sender if you have any concerns about the validity of the message. 4. Surf safely – When browsing the Web for financial institutions or other sites, take steps to avoid fraudulent sites that ask for personal information. Most legitimate sites don't ask for such information, but instead require registration ahead of time. Use a search engine that corrects misspellings so that you navigate to legitimate sites and avoid landing on a fake webpage. Creating fake sites with a similarly spelled address is a fairly common scam known as "typosquatting." 5. Practice safe shopping – Shopping online...
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...Professor Romero CIS 324 November 15, 2013 Is it Legitimate? Today, the Internet plays a very important part in the lives of many people. Users are now able to bank online, shop online, apply for jobs online, and perform a number of other tasks that users decades ago were not able to do. Even though the Internet provides users with many conveniences, unfortunately, the Internet is also used to commit many crimes. Phishing is a very common method that thieves use to “steal personal information through spamming and other deceptive means” (“History”, n.d.). The first recorded phishing scam occurred with AOL users in the late 1990s, and was very successful, simply because users did not know any better. Once users became aware of such scams, security meaures were increased, but that did not stop thieves from becoming more creative. Today, the most common phishing scams consist of “an e-mail message [that] tells the victim to click on a link to what purport to be the Web site of a well-known bank or online company” (Baase, 2008). It has become increasingly important for Internet users to be alert and aware of the type of scams that are designed to steal information and potentially identities. Internet users that fall into phishing traps quickly become victims of identity theft and credit card fraud. On average, these scams cost individuals about $1200 (SonicWALL, 2012). To avoid these scams, Internet users should be extra careful when opening emails and clicking on links that ask...
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...BACKGROUND BRIEF: JAMAICAN LOTTERY SCAM This label is ready to print onto Avery Label #8931 NOVEMBER 2012 CARIBBEAN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE BLOCK H, ALISTER MCINTYRE BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, MONA KINGSTON 7, JAMAICA TEL: (876) 970-3447 (876) 970-2910 FAX: (876) 970-4544 EMAIL: INFO@CAPRICARIBBEAN.ORG Copyright © 2012 CaPRI All rights reserved. This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. This page was left blank intentionally. BACKGROUND BRIEF The Lottery Scam “Advance fee fraud on the internet is a current epidemic that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The advent of the internet and proliferation of its use in the 1990s makes it an attractive medium for communicating the fraud, enabling a worldwide reach.”1 Advance Fee Fraud gets its name from the fact that an investor is asked to pay a fee 2 up front or in advance of receiving any proceeds, money etc. These types of scams are not unique to Jamaica and in fact have existed in other parts of the world for some time, as evident from the signature by member and non-member States of the Council of Europe of the Convention on Cybercrime in Budapest, on 23 November 2001, long before this became a major issue for Jamaica. In 1999, the Jamaican Government initiated the liberalization of the telecommunications industry with full liberalization taking effect in March 2003. Since then there has been a...
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...to invest in. However, people now are looking for a solution to prevent scammers from innocent victims, who believed in finding a perfect match on a dating site. Scammers are those who prey on desperate people in order to capture those who are vulnerable, with their magical words. These words are the only “weapon” they can use in the online dating world. According to scammerswatch.org, they said that scammers target victims by creating fake profiles on legitimate internet dating services. Dr. McGraw, who earned a B.A. from Midwestern State University along with an M.A. and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas, identifies a scammer as a person who pretends to be someone they are not, by using social media to create a false identity in order pressure deceptive online romances. Scamming has become a real job for some people and they rely on it for their livelihood. A large majority of people believe that they will not get scammed. As a matter of fact, in the article The Online Romance Scam, written by Monica T. Whitty who has a...
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...Data Breach Exposes Millions to Phishing Scams Data Breach Exposes Millions to Phishing Scams The following paper is about a data breach involving the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider. The name of the company is Epsilon, “an Irving, Texas based marketing firm that develops and manages databases and offers marketing analytics and delivery services such as email communications” . Companies hire Epsilon to send out a total of more than 40 billion messages on their behalf each year. On March 30th, 2011 Epsilon announced that unknown intruders had broken into one of its email servers and accessed the names and email accounts of some of its 2,500 corporate customers, including 7 of the Fortune 10. Companies affected by the breach include the grocery store Kroger, Walgreens, Best Buy, Tivo and significant household banks such as JP Morgan Chase, U.S. Bancorp, Citigroup, Capital One, and Barclays Bank to name a few. Roughly 50 companies were affected by this major breach one that the Guardian called “the largest Internet security breaches in U.S. history” . Experts say the good news is this was not credit card data, Social Security numbers, or account numbers and passwords. The hackers mainly got email addresses and names. Even though these scammers did not receive credit card information or social security numbers it is still a major breach that can cause serious damage to its clients. This is a concern because of a crafty...
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...“MAKIBAKA WAG MAGBABOY!”, a popular scream of the Filipino people rallying in accordance with the proposed abolition of the pork barrel. Many things have been said about abolishing the pork barrel system but something seems omitted. Has anyone suggested another option? An alternative perhaps? The reason why I chose this topic is because it somehow affects all of us. I want to know the reason why some people take PDAF for granted not only the politicians but also those who are pretending to organize projects, etc but instead they use it for their personal gains. Is pork barrel the real root of corruption? These questions are just some of the many subjects that are inclined with the topic. With all the commotion and protest over the pork barrel scam, there are still a number of Filipinos who have no idea what it is. This term paper aims to give information about the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or the pork barrel and some issues and controversies connected with it; thus enlightening the effect of the proposed abolition of the pork barrel. Generally, pork barrel refers to the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district. The usage originated in American English. In election campaigns, the term is used in derogatory fashion to attack opponents. Scholars, however, use it as a technical term regarding legislative control of local appropriations (Wikipedia.org) In the Philippines, "pork...
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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnRmmDiz5aY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bauzUSu2v5k http://www.thehindu.com/specials/timelines/satyam-scandal-who-what-and-when/article7084878.ece http://cbi.nic.in/fromarchives/satyam/satyam.php http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-all-that-you-need-to-know-about-the-satyam-scam-2067138 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyam_scandal http://www.hindustantimes.com/business/satyam-scam-all-you-need-to-know-about-india-s-biggest-accounting-fraud/story-YTfHTZy9K6NvsW8PxIEEYL.html http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/in-case-of-satyam-issue-is-not-just-about-money-but-biz-ethics-109051100040_1.html http://rammallar.blogspot.in/2013/04/satyam-scam-is-it-failure-of-business.html http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Satyam-Scam-And-Ethics/198522 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/271133751_CORPORATE_ACCOUNTING_SCANDAL_AT_SATYAM_A_CASE_STUDY_OF_INDIA'S_ENRON (point 5) http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=30220 https://www.scribd.com/doc/73590653/Satyam-Fraud-Ethical-Corporate-Governance (page 9 onwards imp) http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/scandal-at-satyam-truth-lies-and-corporate-governance/ The Satyam Computer Services scandal is a corporate scandal that worked in India in 2009 where chairman Ramalinga Raju confessed that the company's accounts had been falsified. The Global corporate community was shocked and scandalised when the chairman of Satyam, Ramalinga Raju resigned on 7 January 2009...
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...Cybercrime-"Sextortion" in Teens and Children Electronic methods of committing crimes in society today, is generally a new phenomenon. Modern crimes directed against the operation of computer technology itself, presents new crimes that are as new as contemporary technology. The Internet has opened a variety of new rooms for cybercriminals to commit cyber-based terrorist attempts, computer intrusions, and major cyberfrauds. Cyberextortion is an outsider threat designed to obtain money, products, or favorable considerations from an organization or individuals by using illegal means of persuasion related to computer intrusion (Cybercrime Investigation & Intelligence, 2012). This paper addresses the relatively new form of sexual exploitation called “sextortion” that has emerged on the cybersex crime scene recently, and its affect upon teenagers and children. In addition, the paper addresses the dangers of scams associated with “sextortion”, its criminal profile, law enforcement initiatives to combat “sextortion”, and the penalties for committing these types of crimes. “Sextortion” is a method of sexual exploitation in which individuals are extorted with nude images of themselves shared online over the Internet. Texting has become the modern day method of communication among teens and children, and in the case of “sextortion” these images are displayed online via the new term of “Sexting” that is done via cell phones. Sexual predators that live online, in chat rooms, and on social...
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...Reliance Communications Limited (commonly called RCOM) is a major Indian telecommunication company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. It is the 16th largest operator in the world with more than 128 million subscribers. RCOM, founded by Dhirubhai H Ambani (1932–2002), is the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of [pic]64,000 crore (US$13.6 billion), cash flows of [pic]13,000 crore ($2.8 billion), and a net profit of [pic]8,400 crore ($1.8 billion). The Equity Shares of RCOM are listed on Bombay Stock Exchange Limited and National Stock Exchange Limited. The Global Depository Receipts and Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds are listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Singapore Stock Exchange respectively. | | Background It ranks among the top 5 telecommunications companies. Retrieved 2010-04-14. in the world by number of customers in a single country. Reliance Communications corporate clientele includes 2,100 Indian and multinational corporations, and over 800 global, regional and domestic carriers. The company has established a pan-India, next-generation, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network that is capable of supporting services spanning the entire communications value chain, covering over 24,000 towns and 600,000 villages. Reliance Communications owns and operates the next-generation IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure...
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...causes complexity among young adults with regards to social media is Cyber bullying. Spreading false rumors of a person, posting up embarrassing pictures, and mean online messages are part of cyber bullying. There are many cases of cyber bullying that occur among youth these days. Quoting statistics from the Pew Research Center and the World Health Organization respectively, it’s frightening just how high these figures are – especially when you take into account the terrifying growth of online bullying. Earlier this year, British charity Child Line found cyber bullying to be on the rise; with children reporting 4,507 cases of cyber bullying in 2012-13 compared to 2,410 in 2011- 12. (Retrieved from http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/05/10/dangerous-impacts-social-media-rise-mental-illnesses/ 10th May 2014) Affected youths around the world who are subconsciously experiencing negative changes through social media are suffering from these deep depression within themselves. These modern-day invisible chronic illness spreads beyond measure without doubt allowing vast changes to occur especially among young adults if not properly looked into or handled....
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...10/24/2010 Online Social Networks As technology is improving rapidly nowadays, there is a wide variety of ways for people to communicate with each other. Communication is not limited to phone calls and face-to-face conversations. People can be in contact by text messages, online messengers and online chat room. The invention of online social networks such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter is particularly attracting people to join them to communicate with other people. An online social network is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building social networks among people, who share interests and activities. An online social network essentially consists of a representation of each user, often a profile, the social links of the user, and a variety of additional services. Most online social networks are web based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. An online social network is sometimes considered as a social network service. In a broader sense, online social network usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. (Latest News and Information on Social Networking) The online social networks are very useful and convenient for communications among people as users can get contact through e-mail and instant messages. There are also...
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