Deformation

One of the most common crime in Pakistan and also else where is the cyber deformation. Cyber deformation may be carried. Out through e-mail, spread of malicious gossip on discussion groups or posting of offensive content against somebody on the website. In almost every such case the criminal is on a personal vendetta mission using the net believe that he will have the protection of anonymity that comes with cyber space.

Cyber Stalking

Cyber stalking involves repeated threat and harassment of a victim though e-mail chat massages or web pages. It is also a violation of the privacy of the victim. Like deformation cyber stalking is personal and vindictive in nature. Most targets are women.

Identity and Credit card theft

Closely linked to each other, these involve getting data, including addresses and phone numbers, about consumers and using it to conduct transactions online. Identity theft is helped by the program

 Like credit wizard that generate large volume of random credit card numbers that can be used for fraudulent purchases or billing, specially online software and pornography where is on offline delivery of the goods.

Figures for Pakistan are not available but on internet research firm meridian research, conducted a survey, which showed that online credit card fraud worldwide has increased from $1.6 billion to $ 15.5 billion.

Electronic Eavesdropping

These range from using a trogon and packet sniffer program to infiltrate a system, to the sophisticated interception of electromagnetic signal s and remote monitoring by the computer

Wireless network with inadequate security offer an opportunity for the simplest of drive-by eavesdropping.

Intellectual property theft

With illegally reproducing copyright material on the web being as easy as matter of few clicks, it’s hardly surprising that intellectual property theft id beige threat. According to a us task force report

Losses to the information industry due to intellectual property theft each year range from us 15-17 billion.

Cyber squatting and page-jacking

 Cyber squatting is registering otherwise occupying a domain name

Rightfully belong to another person or company. Page jacking involves the appropriation of the website key words or mate-tags or inserting them into one own sits in a bid to attract more traffic. After the WTC crash newspapers reported many instances on online links that lead to sites that had nothing to do with donations.

Some page jackers “mousetrap” a uses browser once on the site in such a way that if he tries to close the browser he’s directed to any other site.

Criminal conspiracies on internet

Criminals use to web and services like e-mail to facilities criminal activities like organized drug trafficking gambling prostitution and money laundering. Government agencies use monitoring software like conniver and figure to filter e-mail and other massages for traces of criminal activities. But this races privacy issues. The possible of use of encryption technology by cyber crooks further complicates the matter.