It is really hard to define such a broad term as cyber fraud. There is, however, a few general characteristics you find in all cyber fraud. Most of these are done by e-mail (Spam). They entice users to give them critical information like usernames, passwords, credit card information, or other types of account information. Although many attacks come from outside the organisations, some are ‘insider jobs’ - carried out by employees who have access to systems within the company’s defenses. Consumer Fraud Reporting (CFR) has come up with the 'Top 10 List of Current Scams - 2008'. You can have a look at these Scams at http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/current_top_10_scam_list.htm.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), in 2009 released its latest annual report on victims' complaints received and referred to law enforcement. From January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2008, the IC3 website received 275,284 complaint submissions. This is a (33.1%) increase when compared to 2007 when 206,884 complaints were received. This clearly shows that, this is becoming a huge problem to cater in the future for the law authorities. The following figure clearly shows the acceleration of cyber fraud over the years.
So, where lies a solution for this?
After a lame attempt to solve the cyber crime cases in regular courts for more than 8 years and after previous attempts been incredulous, Indian Government has recognized the need of a separate court for cyber crimes and is looking to set up at least one cyber court in each region to handle cases related to cyber crimes like email forger, email and website hacking, identity theft, data theft etc. The first cyber court has been setup in Delhi with Justice Rajesh Tandon as the presiding officer of Cyber Regulation Appellate Tribunal.
Will this solve the issues of Cyber Crimes? The whole world would be eying on this solution with profound eager.
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