Computer Crime
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Refers to any crime that involves
a computer and a network.
Issues 101
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Computer Crime
 Computer Fraud
 Obscene or offensive
content
 Harassment
Computer Issues
 Intellectual Property
Rights (Pirating)
 Pornography using the
internet
 Pyramiding scam using
the internet
 Gaming or lottery
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Computer fraud is any dishonest
misrepresentation of fact intended to let
another to do or refrain from doing
something which causes loss.
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The content of websites and other
electronic communications may be
distasteful, obscene or offensive for a
variety of reasons. In some instances
these communications may be illegal.
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Harassment
directs
obscenities
and
derogatory comments at specific individuals
focusing for example on gender, race,
religion, nationality, sexual orientation. This
often occurs in chat rooms, through
newsgroups, and by sending hate e-mail to
interested parties.
Intellectual Property
Rights (Pirating)
The age of digital media has
dramatically changed intellectual
property
rights
(IPR).
The
proliferation of technologies that
enable
mass-market
digital
copying
and
analog/digital
conversion, combined with filesharing software and peer-to-peer
networks that are easily accessible
via
high-speed
Internet
connections, have led to increased
concerns about distribution of
unauthorized copies of copyrighted
media.
Pornography
Internet pornography is any
pornography that is accessible
over the Internet, primarily
via websites, peer-to-peer file
sharing,
or
Usenet
newsgroups. The availability
of widespread public access to
the World Wide Web in 1991
led to the growth of Internet
pornography.
Pyramiding scam
using the internet
A fraudulent
moneymaking scheme
in which people are
recruited to make
payments to others
above them in a
hierarchy while
expecting to receive
payments from people
recruited below them.
Gaming or lottery
A lottery is a form of
gambling
which
involves the drawing of
lots for a prize.
Lotteries are outlawed
by some governments,
while others endorse it
to
the
extent
of
organizing a national or
state lottery. It is
common to find some
degree of regulation of
lottery by governments.