Crimes can be committed by any body, old, young,
educated, illiterate, name it. When it comes to crimes no discrimination exist.
However, cyber crime is a special type of crime. Today, the computer has
replaced both the gun and the pen as the weapon of choice for many criminals
contrary to widely held view; perpetrators of e-crime are though prevalent in
the developing nations of the world, Nigeria inclusive, cut across every race
an gender. E-criminals include students, amateurs, terrorists, company insiders
– clerks, cashiers, programmers, computer operators, and managers – who have no
extra-ordinary technical ingenuity.
Some are trusted employees with no
criminal records who are tempted by an opportunity, such as the discovery of a
loophole in system security, tempted by greed, financial worries, or personal
problems. While others are x-employees seeking revenge on their bosses,
corporate or international spies seeking classified information, or high-techs
pranksters looking for a challenge. Organized crime syndicates are even turning
to computer technology to practice their trades.
Sometimes entire companies are found
guilty of computer fraud. For instance, a particular company in Nigeria through
its various nefarious programs and services like Quiz shows on a National TV
station, promised thousands of naira to winners of the displayed questions. Deductions
of N100 were made per attempt from several thousands of callers whereas only one
call would be allowed to sail through.
Another instance can be seen in the
case of Equity Funding Inc., which used computers to generate thousands of
false insurance policies that were later sold for over $27 million.3
The foregoing shows how perpetrators
of this heinous crime carry out their illicit trades and more new devices are
being invented each day as we shall see later in this work.
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