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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Nigerian woman jailed for online scam
Okotie, 26, a Nigerian woman studying at a private college in Kuala Lumpur is said to be the first to convicted under the Penal Code for such a scam.
Based on Asiaone.com she attempted to cheat a government officer in 2009 through some emails by the name of "Microsoft Internet Promotion" saying that he was a winner of the lucky draw. Through the second email he has received, he was asked to pay a processing fee of $2'750 to deliver the prize money to his house and Okotie claimed to be the representative of the delivery company and settled an appointment with the victim( government officer) to take the money and also she asked him to send the copy of his identity card and related documents.
But suspecting something amiss, the officer contacted police and she was arrested for future investigation.
This Nigerian woman was jailed for a year and three months and also is condemned to pay a hefty fine.
According to the mentioned subjects of Cyber Law, this act is categorized under the Penal Code, online fraud, sec415.
Based on Asiaone.com she attempted to cheat a government officer in 2009 through some emails by the name of "Microsoft Internet Promotion" saying that he was a winner of the lucky draw. Through the second email he has received, he was asked to pay a processing fee of $2'750 to deliver the prize money to his house and Okotie claimed to be the representative of the delivery company and settled an appointment with the victim( government officer) to take the money and also she asked him to send the copy of his identity card and related documents.
But suspecting something amiss, the officer contacted police and she was arrested for future investigation.
This Nigerian woman was jailed for a year and three months and also is condemned to pay a hefty fine.
According to the mentioned subjects of Cyber Law, this act is categorized under the Penal Code, online fraud, sec415.
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Opening a window to discussion
Most people think they are not involved in cyber law issues. Others know computer crimes only as hacking but these are merely some misunderstandings about cyber space issues.
In this weblog I tend to discuss more about this subject. In today's world, daily increase in using of computers and internet lead to appear some new phenomenons in social life, social interaction and also social networks, trade, etc.
As we know, these phenomenons innovations or better technology devices around us have some affective and serious advantages and disadvantages based on the use of users. computers and internet could be two of them.
Primarily, the goal of internet and computer or technology overall is to facilitate some aspects of living but, day-to-day we witness some misusing of computers that I am going to discuss about it in future posts.
In this weblog I tend to discuss more about this subject. In today's world, daily increase in using of computers and internet lead to appear some new phenomenons in social life, social interaction and also social networks, trade, etc.
As we know, these phenomenons innovations or better technology devices around us have some affective and serious advantages and disadvantages based on the use of users. computers and internet could be two of them.
Primarily, the goal of internet and computer or technology overall is to facilitate some aspects of living but, day-to-day we witness some misusing of computers that I am going to discuss about it in future posts.
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