Victims of Cyber Crimes

Cyber Law

Cyber crime happens to almost everyone who has an email id, who is a member of a social networking website or even who is doing online transaction to carry on business. But you never know how it is happening unless you become a victim. The impact of victimization may be such that you may need … Read more

Credit Card Fraud

Cyber Law

A credit card has been defined as a payment card, the holder of which is permitted under his contract with the issuer of the card to discharge less than the whole of any outstanding balance on his payment card account on or before the expiry of a specified period, subject to any contractual requirements with … Read more

What is Online Defamation?

Cyber Law

The publication or broadcast of any libelous or slanderous statement about an individual or business that can be proven to be false and published with the intention of harming that entity’s reputation is considered to be defamation. Online defamation is the publication of such statements made on any Internet based media including blogs, forums, websites, … Read more

Nature and Scope of Cyber Crime

Cyber Law

The Cyber Crime is now no more limited to few sporadic incidents of unauthorized access to a particular  computer or a particular cyberspace with a view to damaging its data or sabotaging the system which few years were called the Computer Espionage. The cyber crime has spread to such proportion that a formal categorization of … Read more

Gambling Law in India

Gambling features in List II of the Constitution of India. This implies that the State Governments have the authority to enact laws in order to regulate gambling in the respective states. Thus, there is no single law governing gambling in the entire country. Different states have different laws governing gambling in addition to the laws … Read more

Relation between Cyber Crime and Conventional Crime

Cyber Law

Conventional Crime Crime or an offence is “a legal wrong that can be followed by criminal proceedings which may result into punishment.” The essential characteristic of criminality is that, it is breach of the criminal law. According to LORD ATKIN, “The criminal quality of an act cannot be discovered by reference to any standard but … Read more

Crime of Identity Theft

Cyber Law

Meaning Identity theft is a crime in which an impostor obtains key pieces of personal identifying information (PIT) such as social security numbers and driver’s license numbers and uses them for his own personal gain. It can start with lost or stolen wallets, stolen mail, a data breach, computer virus, “phishing” scams, or paper documents … Read more

Forms of Cyber Fraud

Cyber Law

Cyber fraud may be defined as a crime in which the  perpetrator develops a scheme using one or more elements of the Internet to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by a false representation of  a matter of face, whether by providing misleading information or by concealment of information. Some … Read more

Email Fraud

Cyber Law

Meaning of Email Fraud Email fraud is the intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual through email. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people. Simply stated, mail fraud can be defined as unlawfully using the postal system to gain … Read more