Cybercrime: Types of Scams, Laws, and Penalties

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Cybercrime 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Trends in cybercrime.................................................................................................. 4
Conclusion.................................................................................................................. 5
References................................................................................................................. 6

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Introduction
There are some new trends in cybercrime in the US, which are phishing,
social engineering, and others on the data and information, which has collected
from the Internet-of-things (IoT) devices. In addition, there are many huge impacts
of these trends on the business and reparation of an organization. Cybercrime is a
crime in which privacy and security have broken by an attacker for their personal
benefits most of the time.
This paper will explain about the types of frauds, which are associated with
cybercrime. It will discuss about the specific law, which applies to the crime. This
paper will include profile for cybercriminal and law enforcement initiatives to
combat cybercrime. It will provide various penalties for committing cybercrimes.
There are various scams associated with cybercrime. In the case of business,
many organization uses unofficial ways to hack the data of particular organization
using malware, malfunctions, and many other methods. There are main five types
of scams, which must avoided by firms, which areas:
1. Malware: it can damage data and other things in a PC, tablet, and
smartphone. Therefore, internet security suite must install on the devices
to secure them from cybercrimes
2. Fraud in a credit card: hacker can hack the personal information from the
users using phishing and other methods. Therefore, monitoring services
must use by the credit cardholders.
3. Data breach: it is a type of fraud that is associated with cybercrime. In this
scam, hacker can hack whole databases using malfunctions and DDoS
attacks to breach the data and information from databases.
4. Compromised passwords: it is a process for the security of the system in
which hackers used different methods to theft the passwords. There must
be secured and strong passwords for access to the system.
5. Unauthorized email and social media access: most of the data theft from
the social media sites and email of users. Therefore, it is necessary to use
a strong password for securing all the things.