For many people internet seems to be comfortable and safe way of communication. There is some voices promoting a super open attitude to internet society. This involves revelation of personal data like phone number and address. Although followers of this solution may say that no secrets mean no opportunity to harm, there is a lie at the bottom of the idea. Internet society still gathers a large amount of anonymous folks – also hackers, frauds, and stalkers.
Year after year cyber criminals become more sophisticated in their actions. They are cheating not only better and better anti-virus programs, firewall and other security software but also naïve internet users. That is why Tom Liston, a senior security consultant with Intelguardians (a Washington-based Internet security consulting group) claimed in 2007: "The attackers are now following the same path that businesses have, in trying to advertise themselves in their own special way on the more popular Web sites. They're doing exactly what every business tries to do, which is to find innovative ways get themselves out in front of as many eyeballs as possible." [1]
Some of them can use a malicious video or audio content to persuade viewers into opening “backdoors” into their own systems and by that holes to control machines. Mainly the trick is to ensnare by lurking on familiar Web sites and using stolen data to craft scam e-mails that are more believable, and thus more likely to entice an unsuspecting user. Look at the video to find out more about this method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlECNpOmJEo
There is also a practice of “lifetime e-mails occasions” for example West African Scam, called also as Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud or 419 Fraud. This scam is delivered mostly to wealthy, middle class, middle age businessmen. Even if it seems to be apparently bogus still the scam can be seen growing effectiveness and reach. This happens because large amount of people believe they have been singled out from masses to share countless profits, without any effort.
Scammers win viewers confidence by using or creating an important government “officials”, their relatives, religious figures and Nigerian National Petroleum Corp employees or workers from other West African countries . They often make grammatical and spelling mistakes to reassure victims by creating a sensation of intellectual superiority, sympathy. E-mails are written in capital letters, have foreign exotic stamps, are addressed to “COE” or “president” rather than a specific name and grips a sense of urgency.
The cheater often describes lucrative, illegal deal, which do not contain a risk to potential dupe. The victim is asked to distant participate in getting the money out of Nigeria or other West African country by using him/her as a conduit who will benefit at this cooperation. Sometimes the business makes waves of legal action. This may be Will Scam, the Real Estate Scam and Scholarship Scam.
No doubts that this is only a beginning of escalation of requests such as transfer tax, a variety of processing, licensing or registration fees and others. Victim's individual monetary losses can range from the low thousands into multi-millions. There are also cases of murder, suicide and some psychological traumatic reactions connected with financial losses or bankrupts.
If you are interested in the subject please visit:
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/nigerian.htm
where you can find examples of 419 scams and a lot of other information.
There is one more danger to describe – cyber stalking, a new way of harassment. Following the site of The National Center for Victims of Crime it is “a threatening behavior or unwanted advances directed at another using the Internet and other forms of online and computer communications”. This new phenomenon may derives from easiness of finding out personal information in the net and feelings of impunity. Experts claims that the problem of cyber harassment would grow in the nearest future. Media are widely interesting in the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAPeYwcvaQ&feature=related
How cyber stalking may look like? Please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLkkmCRhfnc&feature=related
Cyber stalkers may use such behaviors as the transmission of threats and false accusations (for example via e-mails ) , identity theft, data theft, damage to data or equipment, computer monitoring, the solicitation of minors for sexual purposes and confrontation. It can be terrifying life experience for victims and leads to psychological trauma. These people often feel helpless, but there is a lot of thing that should be done in cyber stalking cases.
There is many tips placed in internet. For further information please visit The National Center for Victims of Crime-Cyber Stalking or Cyber911 Emergency.
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