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Individuals following these directions were then taken to a fake website, where the scammers got the pertinent log-in information.

The phishing email itself is also violating a law. This would fall under Title 18 Crimes and Criminal procedure, part 1, chapter 4, § 1028: "Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, authentication features, and information”. While there has been attempts in the past to introduce and pass laws that specifically apply to phishing attempts none of these laws have made it on the books.

We have to approve the Cybersecurity Act in order to protect ourselves as American people, from predators and harmful online hackers. Cybersecurity is highly needed in today’s society since this generation is a high tech, online generation. Since everything is moving towards computers and technology, we will need to protect our information to keep us, (especially American people since everyone hates us for many sensible reasons, even Americans their selves) and the world safe. We need to do anything and everything we can to have protection against online hackers, predators, terrorists, and cyber-criminals who want to use our and the world’s information for evil. We must do what we can to stop them in their path to keep them from accessing our private information to share with others, or use against us.

The internet has brought upon a new revolution of global interconnection where contacting someone on the other side of the world is just a click away, but with this international phenomenon comes an increased susceptibility with unfamiliar technology. Internet crime is compiled of all non-physical crime with the aid of a computer. Although broad in definition internet crimes are largely composed of acts such as cyber fraud, ‘phishing’ (username and password hacking), cyber stalking and hacking. Internet crime does not pose an overwhelming issue in society in terms of its

Identity theft portrays criminal acts through which the culprit deceitfully acquires and utilizes someone else's character. These unlawful act can be done by communication technology and utilizing data. Identity Theft done on the internet are to a vast degree based of profoundly complex tricks and it demonstrates the troubles that law enforcement organizations are confronted with when exploring such offenses. The techniques habitually utilized by guilty parties to get personal related information are different. Physical methods allude to storage devices in a computer with data containing personal information about an individual's identity. As indicated by a survey, it was highlighted the fact that there were more PC related offenses as to the burglary of confidential

Luckily, for law enforcement, after ripping people off several times over emails, people who were promised services or goods and not receiving them, started to catch on. Police were notified by a number of people and were given the email addresses and names

Email phishing, one scheme of internet scamming, is a problematic issue in society as it causes millions of people to fall victim to identity theft and financial exploit. Acts such as this could not be more apparent at The University of Alabama during its 2013-2014 school term, when an email headlined “New Year Upgrading” surfaced its way into the inboxes of UA students. In his article “University OIT warns of phishing scams” for The Crimson White, author Josh Sigler cautions students of The University of Alabama to be wary of false advertisement and to refrain from providing personal information, if uncertain. Sigler attests why UA students should be as alert as possible of online scams by appointing advice from a specialist, unveiling past

Additionally, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has made significant efforts to reduce the threat of identity theft and increase security. In 2007, the UNODC commissioned and released a critical study on fraud and falsification of identity. This study led to the adoption of a wide approach to the notion of identity-related crime to include all forms of fraud and identity theft. In addition, it revolutionized the approach to identity-related crimes, establishing a new perspective that treated identity-related crimes as distinct criminal offenses. Later in 2011, the UNODC released the “Handbook on Identity-related Crime” meant to be used by legislators, prosecutors and law enforcement giving them the options and assistance in responding to domestic cases of identity theft. Furthermore, ECOSOC has passed multiple resolutions addressing the issue of identity theft calling for international cooperation in the prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of economic fraud and identity-related crime with the most recent one being resolution 2013/39 passed in July of 2013. Moreover, INTERPOL has engaged in

Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes. There is very little you can do to prevent it, and you won’t know it’s happened to you until it is too late. Identity theft is currently the fastest growing crime around the world specifically Canada and the United States. The purpose of this paper will be to fully describe identity theft. It will be examined through the discussion on what identity theft is followed by the different kinds of identity theft. It will further explore the role of technology in aiding combatting identity theft and how identity thieves use victims’ personal information. Finally, this paper will then demonstrate the law enforcement response to identity theft leading to the legislation that has been enacted in Canada and the United

Identity theft damages a person both financially and legally. It destroys credit ratings, corrupts personal records, such as mortgages, insurances, and drivers’ licenses, and victims of ID theft may potentially spend thousands of dollars to recover their identity, correct compromised records, and fight bill collectors. Some cases the money spent recovering one’s identity may exceed the amount of money lost (Ansley, 2008). In addition to money stolen, proceeds may also be halted due damaged vendor relationships. It may be difficult to find another vendor who provides the same materials the purchasing company needs (Harman, 2015). Despite the verbiage in standard insurance policies claiming to cover any loss due to a computer virus, many are forced to sue their insurance companies for not honoring the wording in their policies. Insurers did not intend to cover these types of claims when writing the policies, and such, does not feel obligated to cover the costs relating to social engineering frauds. This can further complicate an already complicating time (Harman,

Cyberstalking is a relatively new concept but it is taking the world with storm. While there is no concrete definition for cyberstalking, many different law enforcement agencies have all developed a similar definition for this concept. “[Cyberstalking is] the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person.” (Attorney General 1999) Additionally it also goes into defining what constitutes as

Introduction: I am positive that I am not the only one here who has been subject to scams, information gathering techniques or ads targeted at them via emails or cellphones based on electronically stored information obtained by

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, henceforth referred to as IC3, stated in its 2015 Internet Crime Report that 80.2% of its world-wide collection of cybercrime complaints came from victims from the United States that year. [1] The same report recorded a total loss of $898,656,208 by the victims within the United States. [1] These were due to things like compromised business emails, identity theft, viruses, ransomware, etc. [1] This evidence suggests that cybercrime affects citizens and businesses in the United States more than any other country in the world. In an interview with Special Agent Victor Rodriguez of the FBI, he estimated that the number of

Phishing has been studied in the contexts of technical mechanism to prevent phishing attempts (Kumaraguru et al., 2007). Other studies have inquired into the behavioral aspect of individuals towards phishing (Jakoboson et al., 2007; Grazioli, 2004; Downs et al, 2006; Jagatic et al., 2007; Karakasiliotis and Furnell, 2006; Tsow and Jakobbson, 2007; Workman, 2007; Vishwanath et al., 2011; Wright and Marett, 2010; Workman, 2008; Luo et al., 2013; Kim and Kim, 2013). Technical measures against phishing are incapable of preventing phishing due to the fact that phishing plays on the cognitive and psychological aspects of the human cognition.

According to the analysis above, we have a complete understanding for the current phishing protection situation and probable protection issues. Based on two phishing tests results and related statistics analysis. We can make a conclusion that, most staffs in the IT department of University XYZ have enough security awareness for protecting phishing attacks. Most of them will not believe, reply or open the attachment of phishing emails. Most employees can adopt suitable methods solving phishing attacks: report the phishing event to the security group, ignore and delete phishing emails, and add phishing sources into the blacklist. Also, they has a very good email filtering system. Most phishing emails will be send to junk box directly. Even our phishing campaign test system should ask for a whitelist before starting campaign. In the second test, due to the content and image of our campaign emails. Our campaign emails are filtered by their system totally. The result of that campaign test is listed below: