ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR MAKING CRIME FROM CLOSED CHAMBER TO OPENED WORLDWIDE PLATFORM

Soumya Chakraborty, Soumyajit Mondal* and Dhrubo Jyoti Sen

ABSTRACT

Cybercrime is a broad term that is used to define criminal activity in which computers or computer networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity and include everything from electronic wracking to denial of service attacks. It is a general term that covers crimes like phishing, Credit card frauds, bank robbery, illegal downloading, industrial espionage, child pornography, kidnapping children via chat rooms, scams, cyber terrorism, creation and or distribution of viruses, spam and so on. It also covers that traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enable the illicit activity. Cyber-crime is increasing day by day, nowadays it has become a new fashion to earn money by fraud calls or to take revenge through hacking other accounts.

Keywords: Computer fraud, Cyber terrorism, Cyber extortion, Ransom ware, Cyber warfare, Financial crimes, scams, Cybersex Trafficking and Ad fraud.