...anything for their name. Some people do this just so they can feel like they can be who ever they want to be without it coming back to their real selves. However, some people do this so they can get information on someone that otherwise would not give out information; or to gain the trust of someone so they can hurt them; plus, many other reasons. Law Enforcement can use this trick too, as can be seen on NBC’s To Catch a Predator. On this program, law enforcement pretends to be underage children in order to catch older men trying to take advantage of them. In addition to concealing identity, many people also steal others’ identity. Some may do this just to conceal their identity, but mostly it’s so they can steal credit information. Today, one of the biggest crimes, and hardest to prove, is credit card fraud. Once someone has stolen someone else’s identity, then they can obtain credit cards, driver’s license, mortgages, etc in the others name. Then, when they cannot pay for things, they simply disappear and the victim is held responsible for the money owed. The easiest way to stay on top of this is to run a credit check on one’s self every year to make sure all credit cards and loans indeed are due by them. With most banks handling charges...
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...law enforcement by deceit, I have researched and analyzed which of the two methods work best out of “Sting Operations” and “Entrapment”. After it was all said and done, I found that sting operations came out with better results than performing entrapments in order to catch criminals. Although it wasn’t the easiest conclusion to come to, it was evident that the best method of the two in law enforcements by deceit was by far the sting operations since sting operations actually had more of a deterrence than entrapment. However, before I could come to this conclusion, I had to first gain a good understanding as to what the actual meaning of each term meant and why the use of either was even necessary in some law enforcements eyes. Sting operations are opportunities or enticements to commit a crime, either created or exploited by police. Law enforcement agents find it necessary to engage in sting operations simply because some situations where a criminal is not able to be captured under normal circumstance or efforts, they are able to incorporate this deceitful method with the help of the public to capture these hard to catch...
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...of the attacks will target to get the credentials of the user, so that, they no need to go through all the difficulties in finding out the ip address then look at the ports and all that stuff. Of the reported incidents in 2015 as per the report, 63% of proved date breaches involved weak, default or stolen passwords. These happen mostly in the Web application attacks, and the POS Intrusions. One simple thing that we ignore is that by maintaining static credentials, a user is luring the attacker for easy way of intrusion. Compare to other methodologies of...
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...Assignment B – Crime and Crime prevention ICT has greatly contributed to better crime prevention but has also increased some forms of crime. Many Internet criminals are using a number of different methods in order to take what they want from unsuspecting members of the public. There are multiple reasons why criminals commit crime via the Internet, however the most common crimes are the theft of money, the theft of identities or information and finally the damaging of others computers via methods such as viruses. Out of all of the crimes committed over the internet the theft of money from others is the largest due to a number of reasons, however the main reason is that its probably the easiest to do as more and more people are buying and selling products over the internet with the use of credit or debit cards. Criminals are easily able to access these details if members of the public aren’t careful with their details, for example if a member of the public puts their details into an unsecure website there is a great risk of a criminal obtaining this information. Crime prevention has been massively improved with the introduction of tracking devices, CCTV (Close Circuit Television), face recognition software and hacking which can, when used correctly, be used to trace the location or activity of a criminal. Personally, CCTV has never effected or helped me, but I have known people who have had their vehicle or important items stolen from vehicles; CCTV helped them to identify...
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...Byce had no criminal record and was the average person. This meant there was no reason to suspect her. She did have pressure and opportunity to commit fraud though. She had a gambling addiction at the time, which can lead to needing money and then more money. No one else probably even knew she had a gambling addiction. She also had medical issues, Crohn’s Disease, which led to surgeries and continuing surgery. Of course, these surgeries and treatments would have cost money. (Damien, 2009) Byce committed fraud with one of the easiest assets- cash. Through a lack on internal controls she was able to conceal her crimes well. She received blank pre-signed checks so there was no one verifying the checks to invoices and purchase orders. She also forged the contracts for purchases to which she wrote the checks. She was the one person in charge of it all. The she converted the checks into an account for the organization which she then wrote checks to herself from. She also kept two sets of books, which should have raised concern. (Damien, 2009) These checks Byce wrote were for forged purchase contracts. With better inventory controls the company should have noticed that the amount of cattle did not change even though there were checks written saying that inventory should have changed. This should have been a big red-flag to the companies. Also, the fact that she forged documents all the way down to receipts and vet records shows a lack of control. No one called about...
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...include acts and commissions that are a breach of law counterbalanced by sanctions from the state. Cybercrime is the latest and most complicated problem in the cyber- world. Illegal methods of cybercrime are financial crimes, pornography, online gambling, intellectual property crime, e-mail spoofing, forgery, cyber-defamation, and cyber- stalking (Dashora, 2008). Cyber-Crimes and the Advancement of Technology In modern day, the economy is doing poorly and unemployment rates are at its highest. Individuals are struggling to obtain a job that pays well. It is sad to know that criminals are taking advantage of other individuals but these criminals never think about how they are hurting others by what they do. Cyber-crimes have become so popular in other countries and money laundering is a type of cyber-crime that has become a huge issue over the years. Today’s technology has made it easier for criminals to commit cyber-crimes because he or she does not have to expose his or her face because of the Internet. The new trend is for scammers to solicit through e-mails about job offers to trick individuals into falling for payment transfer scams (Hoax-Slayer, 2012). The recipient does not notice that he or she has committed a money laundering scam and if discovered, the trace goes right back to the recipient. There are many instances which the scammer tells the recipient that they have a job offer for them and that the recipient needs to send them his or her personal information to...
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...WHAT A CROCK! I'm finding out none of those so call legal documents means a DAMN THING. John L. Long has been a step ahead of me the whole time. He's known he will not face severe punishment in the court for stealing my money and he wouldn't have to return my $1, 500.00. It's the easiest $1,500.00 he's ever made thinks to the help of the court system. As I'm running around in circles back and forth to court, writing letters and copying documents mailing them to the court representatives wasting my time accomplishing nothing. CRIME DOESN'T PAY is the biggest lie and I'm just finding that out. A misdemeanor for stealing $1,500.00 from a 70 year old person who was just trying to make his home wheelchair accessible. I thought our legal system in a civilized society was design to make it unnecessary for gun fights in the streets, like in the westerns, to settle...
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...Internal Controls XACC/280 m m Internal controls are an integral part of a business operation because of the extreme importance of assets. Assets are basically an economically valued item owned by an individual or corporation, which most often has a direct conversion rate to cash. Examples are cash, securities, accounts receivable, in-stock product, business equipment, real-estate, cars, and other valuable property. Assets are business resources which could lead to being able to generate future services and benefits. Operational goals of profitability are achieved through a company’s assets. These are the resources and possessions which allow businesses and corporations to provide goods and services to generate profits. Assets can be current assets like cash, accounts receivable, inventory, and prepaid expenses that generate profits or gains within the current accounting period. They also can be long-term items such as property and business equipment. Since these assets are a businesses’ or corporations’ most valuable resources, they must be protected from theft and unauthorized use by creating, and implementing, a company “internal controls system.” Internal controls are procedures and protocols by which a company conducts internal monitoring. Through taking it upon itself to audit its own business dealings, a company increases the chance of success. Also, these controls systems ensure the liable parties invested in companies that their business are running...
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...the individuals offender’s behavior. Forensic Science has other sciences that coordinates its goal such as Legal Psychology which will decide whether an offender is on conditions to go or not to court and correctional psychology that will follow the behavior and rehab on an offender Introduction In the show Criminal Minds on A&E, they show a dramatize version of what very few talented people do daily. Although, it is not what really happens it gives people a light overview on something that is more realistic and detailed. Solving a case, analyzing an offender takes time and a lot of research on the individual. However, their job does not finish when they catch the bad guy because that is just the beginning of a long work on rehabilitation to prevent by analyzing the motive of every offender and been able to prevent more crimes of occurring. Legal and Correctional Psychology follows the behavior of the offender during their time inside and outside the correctional with the only purpose to understand what lead them to offense in order to prevent more murders, suicide , child abuse and so on. In America, Forensic Psychology plays an important role in the Criminal Justice System, with special focus in Legal and Correctional Psychology. In the last 30 years Forensic Psychology has developed as a field and in 2001 was recognized by the psychological American Association (APA)( Heilbrun, K., & Brooks, S). It is well known worldwide and for helping Juries and supplying...
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...education. Everyone who desires an education should realize the important fact although the tools are out there and it has become easier to cheat, it has also become much easier to get caught. The internet has played an advanced role in the aid of assisting students in cheating; however, it has also played a useful roll in catching them as well. Online websites such as schoolsucks.com, flashpapers.com, and hundreds of others have made buying a term paper as easy as the click of a mouse. On the flipside of this many websites also exist to combat plagiarism by offering tools to help students ensure that they have not plagiarized their paper. Websites such as turnitin.com, eazypaper.com, and plagiarism.org offer students and instructors a way of checking their paper to ensure that it has been cited correctly. The excuses fly when it comes to...
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...The FairTax Act Many debates have been waged over the decades on what will be taxed, on who shall be taxed and how taxes are collected. Since the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, the debate has intensified, centering on how high to make the income tax rate. Most Americans were not concerned since the Amendment was sold to them as something that would only affect corporations and the rich. With ever increasing fervor these corporations created lobbyists to convince Congress to exempt them from some or all of the income tax. The big breakthrough in this was taxing the worker directly with payroll taxes during World War II. This method of collecting income tax was sold to Americans as temporary, but Congress has extended it indefinitely and the public has become used to it. The next few decades saw the debate revolve around creating tax breaks for individuals in an attempt to modify behavior or spending. This has resulted in over 67,000 pages of tax code and an entire industry devoted to tax compliance and evasion, with the unintended behavioral change of corporations and the rich parking their money outside of the United States in small island nations to avoid taxation. These offshore accounts are estimated to hold $10 trillion dollars, a number approximate to the national debt. The FairTax Act should be enacted because it eliminates all federal income taxes for individuals and corporations, eliminates all federal payroll withholding taxes, abolishes estate and...
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...SOMETHING for NOTHING The Causes and Cures of All Our Problems and What You Can Do to Save the American Dream BRIAN TRACY Eagle House Publishing Corporation 2004 Eagle House Publishing Corporation 1117 Desert Lane, Suite 1228 Las Vegas, NV 89102 USA www.eaglehouse.biz eaglehousepc@hotmail.com Copyright © 2004 Brian Tracy. All rights reserved. First Eagle House Publishing Corporation electronic edition 2004 ISBN 0-976123-92-4 To my wonderful wife Barbara, who has encouraged me to write this book for twenty-five years. Without her continued inspiration, these ideas may never have been available to mankind. Contents Introduction. A Society in Crisis ..................................................1 Chapter One. Why We Do the Things We Do .............................7 Chapter Two. What We All Want ...............................................29 Chapter Three. Simple as ABC ...................................................45 Chapter Four. Character Reigns .................................................63 Chapter Five. The Current Dilemma ..........................................79 Chapter Six. Government, Politics and Power ............................93 Chapter Seven. The Foundationsof the American Dream .........116 Chapter Eight. Working For a Living .......................................126 Chapter Nine. Law, Order and Crime ......................................138 Chapter Ten. Welfare,Entitlements and Society ........................148 Chapter...
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...Avoiding Identity Theft Gary Lee Kaplan University CM 220 Kelley Gordon Avoiding Identity Theft Ben Franklin once said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Well this has never been truer than in today’s hi-tech society where our personal information flows freely over the internet. Identity theft has become a wide-spread crime committed by thieves who use stolen personal information to commit various types of fraud. Simply put, identity theft is a crime that takes your personal information and uses it to open unauthorized accounts, make purchases and acquire loans without the victim’s knowledge. So in order to protect against identity theft citizens should understand how identity thieves work, guard their personal information, and learn what measures to take if this does happen to them. No one is safe from identity theft but the elderly are especially vulnerable. Americans over the age of 60 are the fastest growing segment of computer and Internet users today. And according to the FBI, they are also the targets of identity theft more often than anyone else (FBI, 2011). Identity thieves target senior citizens because they don't regularly check credit-card statements, review credit reports or monitor their bank statements. Identity theft can be broken down into two separate categories (Identity Theft & Identity Fraud) since it is actually a two part crime. Identity theft is the actual act of obtaining personal information...
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...THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward Rio. Such new opportunities, plus the spirit of an age that encourages rather than represses the natural lust for wealth, are greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees...
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...Information Systems Security By: Jessica Burnheimer, Kathleen Cline, Brian Weiss Outline for Group paper I. Introduction II. Issues concerning Information Systems Security A. Define IS security B. Why IS security is necessary? C. History and Back round of IS security D. Current issues concerning IS security 1.) Spamming 2.) Hacking 3.) Jamming 4.) Malicious software 5.) Sniffing 6.) Spoofing 7.) Identity Theft III. Solutions to contemporary IS security issues A. Solutions for “Spamming” B. Solutions for “Hacking” C. Solutions for “Jamming” D. Solutions for “Malicious Software” E. Solutions for “Sniffing” F. Solutions for “Spoofing” G. Solutions for “Identity Theft” IV. The Future of Information Systems Security A. New technologies and techniques effecting the future of Information Systems Security B. Tips and information regarding maintaining a Secure Information System C. How security issues will continue to shape Information Systems Management V. Conclusion Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pressing issues pertaining to Information Systems security. We will be covering the history of Information Systems Security, the current security issues, and why it is important to be knowledgeable in Information Systems security. Also, we will cover some solutions to the issues that...
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