Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon

The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit

What Are The Types Of Fraud...

By Debdutta Ghosh Some time at the end of June, Delhi resident Puneet Agarwal, the nephew of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel put up a plea for plasma for treatment of Covid-19 for a close relative on his social media page.   Blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from Covid-19 contains vital antibodies …

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Increase In Cyber Attacks On Indian...

This was not an isolated incident in the Western state of India as revealed by the cyber crime unit of the state. In fact reports have now emerged that a large number of people have been subjected to online extortion threats from hackers such as this one. The hackers reportedly claimed that they had complete access to the personal data of the targets and demand money, in many cases in bitcoins in exchange of not making public the details of websites that had been accessed by the target in recent times

Cyber Criminality Trends: Why and How...

Information and communication technology has brought a variety of non-conventional crimes. Cyber criminality is a major challenge for security officials in Sub Saharan Africa. Each seconds cyber criminals discover software and security terminal devices to operate. The language used by cybercriminals is also a barrier to the law enforcement officers and the criminal justice system. We listen to new words each day, like machine man, Ngues man (to describe scammers) and pick-up, but also mail with attach bills for ‘clients’ of cybercriminals

India is Among the Top Five...

India is projected to have more than 730 million users by 2020 which will make it the third largest market of internet users after the United States and China. Over the last few years, internet adoption in the country has grown at almost 44 per cent annually

Cyprus Killer Exposes Bias Against Female...

For women who report sexual harassment, police said they fully investigate such complaints and move forward with prosecution if a case is established