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Cybercrime encyclopedia

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Cybercrime encyclopedia

Cybercrime comes in many shapes and forms. To help you understand the dangers facing you online, we have prepared this Cybercrime Encyclopedia. It will act as a guide while you look over the cybercrime statistics.

Cybercrime statistics

Our cybercrime statistics illustrate just how widespread and affecting online criminal activities are.
Who gets hurt? What is the damage? All is illustrated inside.

Types of cybercrimes

Confidence or romance scam

Confidence or romance fraud is a crime when a perpetrator tricks their victim into thinking they are in a relationship (family, friend, or romantic) to extort money, personal information, or anything else of value.

Credit card fraud

Credit card fraud is any form of theft or fraud committed using a credit card or a similar way of payment (Automated Clearing House, Electronic Funds Transfer, recurring charges, etc.).

Denial of service attack

A Denial of Service (DoS) is a cyberattack that floods a network or a system to slow it down with internet traffic. A Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS) is a type of DoS that specifically targets voice services.

Discrimination

Discrimination is prejudice and unjust treatment of people by different categories like age, race, social status, ethnicity, sex, disability, or any other category a person can fall under.

Extortion

Extortion is an illegal way to get money (or anything else of value) from a person by intimidation, threats, blackmail, or undue exercise of authority.

Government impersonation

Government impersonation is a crime when someone pretends to be a government official to extort money from their victim.