Defamation case

In this and next posts I will write defamation cases. This case in reported in July 16, 2008. A man called Robert Griffin took Patrick Sullivan to court because of defamation that Patrick did on him. He (Patrick) has posted false and malicious allegations about Griffin including that he is a stalker, abuser, killer, coward and some other things. Since the defendant could not defend on himself and these allegations damaged Griffin’s reputation, the decision of the court about defendant was that he should pay $150’000 in general. And the court threatened the defendant by injunction if he continue to post any other defamatory messages.

source:www.rexxfield.com

Email Policies

  

As we know, email is a tool for communication and users are allowed to use it in lawful manner. But there are some risks related to it. Like if you send emails with any offensive, defamatory or malicious remarks so you are seen as criminal. If you send confidential information unlawfully again you are a criminal. Even if you copy a message without permission, then you did a copyright infringement. And also sending an attachment that contains a virus cause you to be a liable because it is strictly prohibited by law to send such emails and there would be punishments for such acts.

Here I will only list some policies relating to email. These policies are as follow:

Commercial that is guidelines on how to right effective emails. The other one is productivity and the third one is being legal. It means prohibiting inappropriate email contents and warns about upcoming risks.

I think email policy is more important for companies to prevent from potential threats. And the companies should train their staff to obey and pay attention to all mentioned policies.

Source:www.emailreplies.com

A case about defamation

 In this post, I want to write a case about defamation to understand more about it.

A woman called Sybil Denise Ballow was accused to post false and malicious information or allegations against Gene Cooly, a man who she barely knew him. She posted these allegations on the Topix.com, a common site like other social networks.

She posted on topix.com that Gene Cooly is a drug addicted criminal and pedophile among other things. When she was in the court and asked to tell about her defenses, she told that she accepts her crime and has no defense on it. Then the court condemned her to $404,000 that should be paid by her.

So you obviously see that there happened a defamation crime and if I go through defamation elements so for the first element, it means Refer I should say that she directly pointed out to a person called Gene Cooly.

The second element is publishing that in this case we saw that the allegations was posted and published on Topix.com, The world’s largest community news website.

The third element is false; I mean she couldn’t prove that those allegation were true.

And the last element is that her allegations injured the plaintiff’s reputation and caused him to lose his job and even leaving his living town. Besides it leads to have problems with his fiancé’s family.

Considering all elements and not having defense, the court has summoned Sybil to be awarded $ 404’000.

source:http://www.georgia-trial-lawyers.com

Consumer Fraud

This is a term you all are familiar with and may be encountered to it. This term simply refers to any intentionally deceptive acts that harm the consumers. And the criminals may face both civil and criminal penalties depending on the type of the crime. Nowadays some businesses are doing their business with the intention of tricking their customers out of their money online and offline. Some of these businesses are like banking or online banking that the problems and complaints may be sometimes about handling debits and credits to checking accounts.

Or the next type is internet or better cybercrimes like identity theft, that this kinds of complaints regarding to internet are increasing that this raise causes the governments to legislate some strict laws to investigate these crimes and also launch the laws concerning consumer protection. As you know frauds relating to internet occur in chat rooms, emails, web sites and so on. The fraudsters can easily make their massages real and credible even it is hard to realize the differences between fact and fiction one.

That is why I think people should be cautious before investing their money in any opportunity they found online.

source:http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com

What is phishing?

Have you heard about it? The number of persons, who have encountered this kind of crime, is increasing day-to-day. First, I will give you a simple definition about phishing that is when online confidential and important information of a person is obtained and stolen by another. This stolen information is for example usernames and passwords, credit card information, bank accounts, number and other personal information such as birth dates. Although many people think that phishers are amateurs, I should say that phishers are creative persons that can use any kind of technology and invest in it.

There is a famous case about phishing happened recently. This case is about PayPal which in it the phisher sent emails to people, asking them to call and there was a telephone number within those emails. When people called them, they were requested to provide their credit card details for getting their account verified. Something important about this case was that the mails which were sent to people had no response address or internet link and when users called the phone, and then they were greeted by an automated voice saying “please type your 16-digit numbers”. Although the number provided on the email was in America and because so many people around the world are dealing with PayPal, they were simply tricked to give their information to the phisher as well.

This case brings concerns for those companies who are dealing with their customers online. I think when things such this case happened so people should be more aware of the dangers related to these types of scams. And also I think they should be more aware of various types of phishing scams that are taking place on the internet and learning how they can prevent themselves can reduce the number of victims.

source:http://www.cybercellmumbai.com

In this part I will compare an offline that means in real life and online stalking.

There are some similarities and differences. One of similarities is that in both situations most victims are women and most stalkers are men. The next one is stalkers generally have the desire to control their victims. And some of the differences are that for example there is limitation as location for stalkers in offline stalking. It means in offline stalking it is needed that victims be located in the same geographic area as stalkers but, there is no limitation in online stalking. Cyber stalkers can be anywhere.

The other one is that cyber stalkers have lower barriers to harassment and threats and he does not need to physically meet the victim. But there is some offered simple prevention of being stalked. For instance, not to share personal information online and being cautious about online meeting.  

So, I can say that this issue, cyber stalking, is a huge problem that needs to be considered and taken care of fast by governments. We are still in danger of such crimes even though some countries have made laws that criminalize cyber stalking.

source:www.ccmostwanted.com

Stalking

In this part the discussable subject is cyber stalking that these days we heard a lot about it in news.

Cyber stalking simply refers to behavior of stalking other people by the use of internet, email or any electric communication devices. These threatening behaviors are such as following a person; leave written massages or objects, identity theft, online verbal abuse and sending damaging email from victims to people who know him. There are some facts about cyber stalking, for instance; individuals who do stalking think they are anonymous and can get away with anything. the most happened cyber stalking are not related to romantic or love stories but the majority of the cases that happen are stranger to stranger. And statistics show over 80% of victims is women. It is obvious when these devices like computers and internet become more popular so naturally cyber stalking is expected to increase. It is important to know the main reasons that cause cyber stalkers to stalk; one of the reasons is sexual harassment that this type is the most common type of stalking online .the online harasser has not fear for physical relation and does not have to leave the comfort of his home to find and harass targets. The other one is that stalkers think the victim or target of their desire is in love with them. This behavior starts when the stalkers will be rejected from the target. The other reason is hate or revenge that the stalkers do it to take revenge on victims.

The last one is that usually victims are selected randomly by someone they do not know. In this part the harasser or stalker wants to show his skills to themselves and their friends.

In future posts I will continue the subject of cyber stalking more widely.