Cyber Crime and Identity Theft

Paper Summary:

The topic of cyber crimes encompasses many different crimes. This report defines cyber crime, and goes into depth regarding the specific crime of identity theft. It includes the definition of cyber crime, and specific techniques used to obtain an individual's personal information used to establish false identity, how to prevent the information from being compromised, as well as additional information should one become a victim of identity theft. This paper also includes real world examples stemming from personal experience.

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Abstract
What is Cyber Crime?
Identity Theft: what is it?
Types of identity theft
Keeping you safe from such crimes
What to do if you become a victim
Conclusion
References

From the Paper:

"Browsing through the US Department of Justice's Website for the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, cyber crime is a handful of crimes where the primary method of operation or M.O. involves the use of computers or attacks on secure electronic data. The scope of these crimes includes unauthorized access to networks, computers databases, fraudulent money transfers or electronic wire transfers, piracy, espionage and gambling. The invention of the internet creates a new place for people to conduct business, and a very discrete and anonymous place for criminals. Everyday more and more people engage in commerce online, accessing bank accounts and making purchases entirely online. The internet creates a larger arena for crime, and creates more instances of opportunity for crime that requires little technical knowledge and provides a tempting cloak for a person to commit crimes. There are more and more crimes that have moved from the streets to an online environment, taking everyday crime and turning it into a cyber crime. Anything that is illegal, and is committed using computer technology in this virtual environment is cyber crime."

Sample of Sources Used:

• California Office of Privacy Protect, (n.d.). Protecting Consumer Privacy. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from California Department of Consuer Affairs: http://www.oispp.ca.gov/consumer_privacy/default.asp
• City of San Francisco, (n.d.). Crime Prevention Tips: Identity Theft. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from City of San Francisco Police Department: http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=20246
• Computer Crime & Intellectual Proper, (2008). Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section. Retrieved August 15, 2008, from United States Department of Justice: http://www.cybercrime.gov/index.html
• Federal Trade Commission, (2008). Facts for Consumers. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/idtheftmini.shtm
• Federal Trade Commission, (n.d.). Fighting Back Against Identity Theft. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/about-identity-theft.html

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