Due September 8 at 11:59 PM Crimes via Electronic Communication Electronic commu

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Due September 8 at 11:59 PM Crimes via Electronic Communication Electronic communication has developed significantly in recent years. You can now conduct research from your laptop or smartphone instead of visiting a library. You can learn about news as it is happening instead of waiting for the next day's newspaper. You can communicate verbally and visually with others anywhere in world. How have these advancements made it easier for white-collar criminals to commit fraud? Put yourself in the role of a swindler and describe how these advancements can assist you. Do these advances in electronic communication also help law enforcement fight white-collar crime? Do you perceive any Fourth Amendment issues related to the use of electronic communications, such as e-mail, text messages, and so on? If you have had an e-mail account for any length of time, you have probably been contacted by a banker, attorney, or member of the royal family from Nigeria. It's a good thing they have found you, since they have millions of dollars that must be sent out of the country, and they have chosen you because they know they can trust you. Does this sound familiar? Using e-mails you have received or Internet sources, find an example of an attempt to commit fraud or to steal your personal data. Describe the e-mail and identify what crime is being attempted. How are you able to identify the e-mail as fraud or an attempt at identity theft? Post your responses to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.

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When it comes to the era of digitalism there are definitely pros and cons of it.

Digitalization has not only helped people to grow economically and has made the world advanced but also has made criminal activities easy.

When one talks about the criminal activity it has been helping the criminal society by few activities like Man in the middle attack where the hacker can very well take down all the details of the user without the knowledge of the user. Also has helped hackers to communicate and hack several crucial pieces of information and polluted the society.

There is law attached to such criminal offenses like:

Criminal Law Code 3-805.

This helps to identify the white-collar criminals and also fetch the relevant records associated with them and recover and prevent the attack made by them.

There can be n-number of a fourth amended issue with respect to the email, fax, and phone calls.

Some of the email related crime are as follows:

Email spoofing, sending across malicious codes via emails, email bombing, sending over threat emails, defamatory emails, and email frauds.

All the above are with the intention to make a fraud/steal data by stealing relevant information via email id. Here the user is also responsible to provide the detail of himself/herself which helps the attacker to hack.

There is a cyber crime cell which deals with such cases to identify the fraud.

For a user there are several factors to prevent this by not clicking any unknown link, not disclosing the password, keeping the password strong and long and difficult, not to open any SPAM.

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