Trends In Cybercrime — An Overview Of Current Financial Crimes On The Internet

摘要

As we are all well aware, fraud on the Internet is a huge problem. Not a day passes without picking up a paper and reading of some new Net fraud scam. It would appear that Net crime appears to be groing faster than the Net, for every new dot com company appearing there appears to be a new Net criminal.rnWith the huge impact that the Net is having on business, personal and social lives, there is a huge impetus to be a part of the dot com revolution. The world's 2 richest men, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison have made their fortunes through the information age, and every day new entrepreneurs try to reap similar rewards using the Internet as the medium. However, as these new entrepreneurs attempt to reap the rewards of this boom, there are those who also attempt to reap the benefits of the Internet, but rather than through legal commerce, have taken the route of criminal activities.