Cybercrime

Queenie Ng

2003-11-25 16:38:59 UTC

Post by Julia Trieu
US Arrests 125 in Nationwide Cybercrime Sweep
The article talks about the number of cybercrimes that occur each day.
For seven weeks, the United States have been uncovering scams and
criminal acts that have taken place online from Ghana to Southern
California. Crimes that occur on the Internet include selling goods that
one doesn¹t have on such sites as Ebay where you would sned money to
someone and they are supposed to send you the goods. Criminals were also
hacking into business files to acquire customers¹ credit card numbers.
Other offences include spaming e-mails and attaching viruses to them. A
similar cybercrime sweep was also done during the first half of the year
and that led to 135 arrests.
original article at
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=2&u=/nm/20
031120/ts_nm/tech_cybercrime_dc_4

I agree with what the article says. There are many cybercrimes going on
everyday and no one can really prevent from them. Many people love
buying things online and therefore these people may go to some sites
that they don't know and buy things through these sites. They paid
their purchases but never get the product. Therefore, in my personal
opinion, I strongly disagree people buying things online. Also hacking
other people's computer or sending viruses to others is very rude. The
people who sent these viruses or hacking other people's computer may
feel a lot of fun doing that. But did they really think of others'
feelings? These victims may have to do a lot of things, like fixing the
computer or to some extreme cases, they may have to buy a new computer.
I think these hackers are very selfish and did they really think that
one day they may face the same thing?