High-tech Crime

High-tech crime or cyber crime is related to the Internet. Match the types of high-tech crime with their definitions. credit or debit card fraud someone uses your stolen credit card or the information from your card to make unauthorized purchases in your name or take out cash using your account a computer virus a small software program that can spread from one computer system to another and cause damage spam unwanted (junk) mail identity theft someone uses another person's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes Read again the stories in your Students´book p. 88 and Workbook p. 84 and divide the information according to the criminals and victims. Theogones de Montford was the leader of the gang of criminals was in prison for four years copied the information from the debit cards people put into the cash machines stole over £720,000 Sam Jenkins was robbed of £15,000 by an uknown criminal received an email asking her to give personal information (her passwords, PIN numbers, and bank account details) to somebody thought the email was from her bank had her identity stolen A Filipino computer programmer wrote an email which said "I love you" and contained a virus wrote the virus which caused damage to many computer systems was arrested but could not be punished at that time Sanford Wallace helped other companies to advertise their products by email sent a lot of junk emails every day was called "Spam King" sent emails to Facebook users which directed them to other paid websites Scott Baldwin had a young nephew was burgled had a dog was very unhappy about one of his relatives John Hickinbottom wanted to rob a bank was wearing a mask and carrying a weapon committed a crime shortly after he had been released from prison was stopped by pensioners Fill in the sentences with the words from below. Personal information includes your name, address, ID number, password etc.Junk mail concerns letters or emails, usually advertising products or services, that are sent to people although they have not asked to receive them.My salary is paid directly into my bank account.Please enter your username and password.A computer programmer is a skilled professional who codes, tests, debugs, and maintains computer programs.There is no need to go to the bank because there is a cash machine in the petrol station.Keep your bank card and your PIN number separate. Watch the video and do the tasks below. Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences below. Cybercrime is fundamentally crime but specifically using computers or the Internet to deliver the attack. Internet security is basically the steps taken to protect yourself from online attacks. Criminals are targeting users, targeting businesses, looking to steal data in order to profit financially from Internet attacks. Frazer is giving an example of Cybercrime. Number its stages. 1 A person is browsing the Web. 2 They come across a page which has been hacked. 3 They are redirected somewhere "bad" and "bad stuff" happens. 4 "Security Shield" is installed. 5 It says they have lots of problems. 6 They pay money for problems which don´t exist. Match the locations with the activities. Where is the person browsing? the UK Where is the server for the first site? Vancouver, Canada Where do the hackers redirect the browser to? Russia Which server does the browser go to in the end? the USA