Terrorism

Government military communication systems are favorite not just Hollywood hackers. Brake-in attempts have been reported from countries as diverse as a Britain and sri-lanka. In recant year one of the biggest fares has been public infrastructure attack organizing on the net. Terrorists use the web on sending spurious signal facilitating activities posting massages and information about their organizations and about their activities.

Investment and business opportunity frauds

Cyber spaces abound with a large variety of fraud investment opportunities from pyramid schemes to misinformation about stock. For example in us only 50million e-mails offering work at home opportunity were sent on the web every year with $ 35 as a processing free.

Online retail and auction fraud

Online retail and auction fraud is committed by web sities charging for goods they don’t intend to deliver. Customers are offer allured by banner ads leading to a site different from the advertised one. On line auction sites a customer may win an auction and pay though his credit card only to get a product that’s different or counterfeit or to find that product never arrives. A related problem is that offer still or fake biding and feedback on a product using falls identities. in one such case prosecuted in the us a man claiming to sell beanie babies defrauded more than 200 vicims of nearly $ 50,000 by creating multiply identities and citing false reference on well-known auction site.

In Pakistan we don’t have any detailed and precise law dealing with modern cyber crimes like cyber deformation stalking nuisance harassment cyber war and cyber terrorism. The bill of electronic crimes act is under consideration and we have to wait to see when and how it will be enforced. Practically there’re no effective remedies for the people who become the target of such cyber crimes .it is need of an hour to chalk out specific code on cyber crimes which supplement the existing penal code. Inspiration can be drown from the as laws as they are more effective and up-to-date.