Crime Using Internet

The Internet is overwhelmingly a power for good. It provides cheap an easy access every moment of every day to a vast reservior of information and entertainment and it is transforming the nature of commerce and Government. However, with approximately one billion users worldwide accessing almost 75 million Web sites, there is bound to be some offensive and even illegal, use of the internet. 

Crime on the Net takes many forms including hacking, viruses, fraud, scams, money laundering, industrial espionage, prostitution, certain forms of gambling, drug use, drug smuggling, suicide assistance, defamatory allegations, cyber stalking, cyber terrorism, actual terrorism.

Today, we have heard many thing about crime using the internet. The news on the television, on social media or the other sources that we can trust. Internet's crime has become serious and worth. There are many people have become their victim especially women. 

Here there are some most common crime using internet and the penalties that go along with them.

1. Phishing 

- Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

2. Blackmail/Extortion

- Using the Internet to threaten to cause damage with the intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value.

- Hackers threatening to expose damaging or embarrassing information in exchange for money face a hefty fine of up to five years. Be sure to keep your anti-virus updated and don't click that weird video link in your email.

3. Accessing Stored Communication

- Intentionally accessing, without authorization, a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided.

- Hacking someone's email account for the purposes of commercial advantage, malicious destruction, or in furtherance of any crime carries a maximum five year sentence for first time offenders. Hacking into an email account in all other cases comes with a maximum one year sentence. Now go change your password.

4. Electronic Harassment.

-Anonymously using the Internet to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass the person who receives the communication.

-Internet thugs and cyber goons beware! You might want to think twice before you flex your finger muscles in the comments section it could turn into a two year stint.

5. Child Pornography

- Using the Internet to transmit child pornography.

- Under federal law, transmitting child pornography carries a minimum five year sentence and a maximum 20 year sentence. Doesn't seem harsh enough.