Cyber Crimes

Cyber Bullying – Cyber bullying is world-wide, some people may not know they are being a cyber bully, for instance commenting negatively on someone’s picture thinking your having an opinion is cyber bullying. Lots of teenagers are cyber bullied online from their classmates which causes anxiety and often leading to self-harm and suicide.

Child Pornography – Unfortunately this is a crime which rakes in millions each year. Often sold on the dark web people will take photos, post photos and buy photos of children for their personal pleasure.

Hackers – The world is getting more and more scary online with all the cyber crimes, hacking if unethical is illegal and hackers will steal your data for their own potential gain or hate crime.

Trolling – A bit like cyber bullying, you are trolling people online commenting on their pictures having an opinion on the way a person behaves or acts. Usually not directed at the person but on social media forum.

Identity theft – Hackers using social media skills to gain access to personal information. This information can then be used to commit fraud and identity theft, i.e. get credit card/loan with someone else’s details.

Child sex abuse – Again usually on the dark web and illegal. Children from foreign countries as well as the EU are often pimped from a young age to travellers and videos are made and sold online of sexual acts. It is reported that young babies are often sexually abused and content streamed and sold to paedophiles online.

Black market Trading – Guns, exotic animal, drugs are a few of the illegal purchases that are made online, There is a marketplace on the dark web that you can buy almost anything imaginable.

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