PROJECT REPORT ON CYBER CRIMES IN FINANCIAL SECTOR SUBMITTED BY ARPIT SHAH

T.Y.B.B.I. [SEMESTER V]

MITHIBAI COLLEGE VILE PARLE (W)

SUBMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013 NAME OF PROJECT GUIDE PROF. EKTA DATE OF SUBMISSION 5TH SEPTEMBER 2012

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DECLARATION
I, ARPIT SHAH of MITHIBAI COLLEGE of TYBBI [Semester V] hereby declare that I have compiled this project on CYBER CRIMES IN FINANCIAL SECTOR in the academic year 2012-2013.The information provided in the project is true and to the best of my knowledge.

Signature of the Student Arpit shah

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CERTIFICATE
I, Ms.Ekta, hereby certify that Arpit shah of MITHIBAI COLLEGE TYBBI [Semester V] has completed the project on CYBER CRIMES IN FINANCIAL SECTOR in the academic year 2012-2013.The information submitted is true and original to my knowledge.

Signature of Principal Project Guide (DR.KIRAN MANGAONKAR)

Signature of (PROF.EKTA)

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EXCECUTIVE SUMMARY
Cyber crimes are any illegal activities committed using computer target of the criminal activity can be either a computer, network operations. Cyber crimes are genus of crimes, which use computers and networks for criminal activities. The difference between traditional crimes and cyber crimes is the cyber crimes can be transnational in nature. Cyber crime is a crime that is committed online in many areas using e-commerce. A computer can be the target of an offence when unauthorized access of computer network occurs and on other hand it affects ECOMMERCE. Cyber crimes can be of various types such as Telecommunications Piracy, Electronic Money Laundering and Tax Evasion, Sales and Investment Fraud, Electronic Funds Transfer Fraud and so on The modern contemporary era has replaced these traditional monetary instruments from a paper and metal based currency to plastic money in the form of credit cards, debit cards, etc. This has resulted in the increasing use of ATM all over the world. The use of ATM is not only safe but is also convenient. This safety and convenience, unfortunately, has an evil side as well that do not originate from the use of plastic money rather by the misuse of the same. This evil side is reflected in the form of ATM frauds that is a global problem. Internet commerce has grown exponentially during the past few years and is still growing. But unfortunately the growth is not on the expected lines because the credit card fraud which has become common has retarded the e-commerce growth. Credit card fraud has become regular on internet which not only affects card holders but also online merchants. Credit card fraud can be done by taking over the account, skimming or if the card is stolen. Certain preventive measures can be taken to becoming a credit card victim. The term "Internet fraud" refers generally to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more components of the Internet - such as chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites - to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to other connected with the scheme. Some forms of Internet fraud, include: Spam ,Scams, Spyware ,Identity theft ,Phishing ,Internet banking fraud.

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"The modern thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow's terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than with a bomb". National Research Council, "Computers at Risk", 1991

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INDEX
SRNO. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. TOPICS CYBER CRIME TYPES OF CYBER CRIME CLASSIFICATION OF CYBER CRIME REASONS FOR CYBER CRIME PAGE NO 01-08 09-25 26-28 29-30

CYBER CRIMINALS MODE AND MANNER OF COMMITING CYBER CRIME FINANCIAL SECTOR CYBER CRIME IN FINANCIALSECTOR FINANCIAL ABUSE &CRIMES TYPES ECONOMICS EFFECTS

31 32-34 35-36 43-44 45 46-48 49 50-56 57-60 60-62 63-66 67-68 72

ATM CASE STUDY & PREVENTION

10 11 12 13

GENERAL TIPS ON AVOIDING POSSIBLE INTERNET FRAUD SCHEMES RECENT CASES &ARTICLES CONCLUSION BIBLOGRAPHY

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CYBER CRIME INTRODUCTION

The usage of internet services in India is growing rapidly. It has given rise to new opportunities in every field we can think of be it entertainment, business, sports or education.

There are many pros and cons of some new types of technology which are been invented or discovered. Similarly the new & profound technology i.e. using of INTERNET Service, has also got some pros & cons. These cons are named CYBER CRIME, the major disadvantages, illegal activity committed on the internet by certain individuals because of certain loop-holes. The internet, along with its advantages, has also exposed us to security risks that come with connecting to a large network. Computers today are being misused for illegal activities like email espionage, credit card fraud, spams, and software piracy and so on, which invade our privacy and offend our senses. Criminal activities in the cyberspace are on the rise. Computer crimes are criminal activities, which involve the use of information technology to gain an illegal or an unauthorized access to a computer system with intent of damaging, deleting or altering computer data. Computer crimes also include the activities such as electronic frauds, misuse of devices, identity theft and data as well as system interference. Computer crimes may not necessarily involve damage to physical property. They rather include the manipulation of confidential data and critical information. Computer crimes involve activities of

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software theft, wherein the privacy of the users is hampered. These criminal activities involve the breach of human and information privacy, as also the theft and illegal alteration of system critical information. The different types of computer crimes have necessitated the introduction and use of newer and more effective security measures. In recent years, the growth and penetration of internet across Asia Pacific has been phenomenal. Today, a large number of rural areas in India and a couple of other nations in the region have increasing access to the internetparticularly broadband. The challenges of information security have also grown manifold. This widespread nature of cyber crime is beginning to show negative impact on the economic growth opportunities in each of the countries. It is becoming imperative for organizations to take both preventive and corrective actions if their systems are to be protected from any kind of compromise by external malicious elements. According to the latest statistics, more than a fifth of the malicious activities in the world originate from the Asia Pacific region. The malicious attacks included denial-of-service attacks, spam, and phishing and bot attacks. Overall, spam made up 69% of all monitored e-mail traffic in the Asia Pacific region. As per the National Crime Records Bureau statistics, there has been a 255% increase in cyber crime in India alone. And mind you, these are just the reported cases. In view of this, various governmental and non-governmental agencies are working towards reducing cyber crime activities. Computer crime, cybercrime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime generally refers to criminal activity where a computer or network is the source, tool, target, or place of a crime. These categories are not exclusive and many activities can be characterized as falling in one or more category. Additionally, although the terms computer crime and cybercrime are more properly restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is a necessary part of the crime, these terms are also sometimes used to include traditional crimes, such as fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement, in which computers or networks are used. As the use of computers has grown, computer crime has become more important.

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Computer crime can broadly be defined as criminal activity involving an information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference (unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data), systems interference (interfering with the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data), misuse of devices, forgery (ID theft), and electronic fraud (Taylor, 1999) In 2002 the newly formed U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that more than $54 million dollars had been lost through a variety of fraud schemes; this represented a threefold increase over estimated losses of $17 million in 2001. The annual losses grew in subsequent years, reaching $125 million in 2003, about $200 million in 2006 and close to $250 million in 2008.

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CYBERCRIMES IN INDIA
As India become the fourth highest number of Internet users in the world, cyber crimes in India has also increased 50 percent in 2007 over the previous year. According to the Information Technology (IT) Act, the majority of offenders were under 30 years of age. Around 46 percent of cyber crimes were related to incidents of cyber pornography, followed by hacking. According to recent published 'Crime in 2007 report', published by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), in over 60 percent of these cases, offenders were between 18 and 30. These cyber-crimes are punishable under two categories; the IT Act 2000 and the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to the report, 217 cases of cyber-crime were registered under the IT Act in 2007, which is an increase of 50 percent from the previous year. Under the IPC section, 339 cases were recorded in 2007 compared to 311 cases in 2006. Out of 35 mega cities, 17 cities have reported around 300 cases of cyber-crimes under both categories that is an increase of 32.6 percent in a year. The report also shows that cyber crime is not only limited to metro cities but it also moved to small cities like Bhopal. According to the report, Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh has reported the highest incidence of cyber crimes in the country. In order to tackle with cyber crime, Delhi Police have trained 100 of its officers in handling cyber crime and placed them in its Economic Offences Wing. These officers were trained for six weeks in computer hardware and software, computer networks comprising data communication networks, network protocols, wireless networks and network security. Faculty at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) were the trainers.

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CRIME STATISTICS
As per the National Crime Records Bureau statistics, during the year 2005, 179 cases were registered under the IT Act as compared to 68 cases during the previous year, thereby reporting a significant increase of 163.2% in 2005 over 2004. During 2005, a total of 302 cases were registered under IPC sections as compared to 279 such cases during 2004, thereby reporting an increase of 8.2% in 2005 over 2004. NCRB is yet to release the statistics for 2006. In 2006, 206 complaints were received in comparison with only 58 in 2005, a 255% increase in the total number of complaints received in the Cyber Cell/EOW over the last year. In terms of cases registered and investigated in 2006 (up to 22.12.06), a total of 17 cases, where the computer was the victim, a tool or a repository of evidence, have been registered in the Cyber Cell/EOW as compared to 12 cases registered in 2005. And mind you, these are just the reported cases. While the number of cyber crime instances has been constantly growing over the last few years, the past year and a half, in particular, has seen a rapid spurt in the pace of cyber crime activities. Cyber lawyers, Pavan Duggal, advocate with the Supreme Court of India and Karnika Seth, partner, Seth Associates, Advocates and Legal Consultants, testify to this, pointing out that they have seen a jump in the number of cyber crime cases that they've been handling in the last one year. One also should remember that the term 'Cyber Crime' should be applied to all offences committed with the use of 'Electronic Documents'. Hence, cyber crimes must grow at the same rate as the use of the Internet, mobile phone, ATM, credit cards or perhaps even faster. "With the little offences came the larger ones involving huge money, and one has seen this sudden jump from smaller crimes to financial crimes in the last one year"

According to Captain Raghu Raman, CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group (SSG), the contributing factors are high volume of data processing, rapid growth and major migration into the online space, especially of financial institutions and their customer transactions. However, actual numbers continue to include, considering the fact that a majority of the

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cases go unreported. Most victims, especially the corporate, continue to downplay on account of the fear of negative publicity thereby failing to give a correct picture of the cyber crime scene in the country. According to Cyber law expert Na Vijayashankar (popularly known as Naavi); it is difficult to measure the growth of Cyber Crimes by any statistics, the reason being that a majority of cyber crimes don't get reported. "If we, therefore, focus on the number of cases registered or number of convictions achieved, we only get diverted from real facts," he adds. Duggal points out to the results of a survey he conducted in early 2006 on the extent of underreporting. For every 500 instances of cyber crimes that take place in India, only fifty are reported and out of that fifty, only one is registered as an FIR or criminal case. So, the ratio effectively is 1:500 and this, he points out, are conservative estimates. Giving an insight into the reasons for low reporting, Nandkumar Sarvade, director, Cyber Security and Compliance at Nasscom, points out that very often, people are not aware whether an incident is a cyber crime; there is also lack of awareness on where to lodge a complaint or whether the police will be able to understand. "Added to this is the fear of losing business and hence, many cases don't come to light," he adds.

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CHANGING FACE OF CRIME

The last year has seen a quantum jump not only in the quantity and quality but also the very nature of cyber crime activities. According to Naavi, a perceptible trend being observed is that cyber crimes are moving from 'Personal Victimization' to 'Economic Offences'. SD Mishra, ACP, IPR and Cyber Cell, Economic Offences Wing, Delhi Police concurs that the cases that are now coming up are more related to financial frauds. As opposed to obscenity, pornography, malicious emails that were more prevalent in the past, now credit card frauds, phishing attacks, online share trading, etc. are becoming more widespread. As Seth points out, initially, when the Internet boom began, certain crimes were noticeable and cyber stalking was one of the first ones. "However, with the little offences came the larger ones involving huge money and one has seen this sudden jump from smaller crimes to financial crimes in the last one year," she adds.

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CYBERSPACE
As the cases of cybercrime grow; there is a growing need to prevent them. Cyberspace belongs to everyone. There should be electronic surveillance which means investigators tracking down hackers often want to monitor a cracker as he breaks into a victim's computer system. The two basic laws governing real-time electronic surveillance in other criminal investigations also apply in this context, search warrants which means that search warrants may be obtained to gain access to the premises where the cracker is believed to have evidence of the crime. Such evidence would include the computer used to commit the crime, as well as the software used to gain unauthorized access and other evidence of the crime. Researchers must explore the problems in greater detail to learn the origins, methods, and motivations of this growing criminal group. Decision-makers in business, government, and law enforcement must react to this emerging body of knowledge. They must develop policies, methods, and regulations to detect incursions, investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, and prevent future crimes. In addition, Police Departments should immediately take steps to protect their own information systems from intrusions (Any entry into an area not previously occupied). Internet provides anonymity: This is one of the reasons why criminals try to get away easily when caught and also give them a chance to commit the crime again. Therefore, we users should be careful. We should not disclose any personal information on the internet or use credit cards and if we find anything suspicious in e-mails or if the system is hacked, it should be immediately reported to the Police officials who investigate cyber-crimes rather than trying to fix the problem by ourselves. Computer crime is a multi-billion dollar problem. Law enforcement must seek ways to keep the drawbacks from overshadowing the great promise of the computer age. Cybercrime is a menace that has to be tackled effectively not only by the official but also by the users by cooperating with the law. The founding fathers of internet wanted it to be a boon to the whole world and it is upon us to keep this tool of modernization as a boon and not make it a bane to the society.

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TYPES OF CYBER CRIME 1. Theft of Telecommunications Services

The "phone phreakers" of three decades ago set a precedent for what has become a major criminal industry. By gaining access to an organizations telephone switchboard (PBX) individuals or criminal organizations can obtain access to dial-in/dial-out circuits and then make their own calls or sell call time to third parties (Gold 1999). Offenders may gain access to the switchboard by impersonating a technician, by fraudulently obtaining an employee's access code, or by using software available on the internet. Some sophisticated offenders loop between PBX systems to evade detection. Additional forms of service theft include capturing "calling card" details and on-selling calls charged to the calling card account, and counterfeiting or illicit reprogramming of stored value telephone cards. It has been suggested that as long ago as 1990, security failures at one major telecommunications carrier cost approximately 290 million, and that more recently, up to 5% of total industry turnover has been lost to fraud (Schieck 1995: 2-5). Costs to individual subscribers can also be significant in one case; computer hackers in the United States illegally obtained access to Scotland Yard's telephone network and made 620,000 worth of international calls for which Scotland Yard was responsible (Tendler and Nuttall 1996).

2. Communications in Furtherance of Criminal Conspiracies

Just as legitimate organizations in the private and public sectors rely upon information systems for communications and record keeping, so too are the activities of criminal organizations enhanced by technology. There is evidence of telecommunications equipment being used to facilitate organized drug trafficking, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, child pornography and trade in weapons (in those jurisdictions where such activities are illegal). The use of encryption technology may place criminal communications beyond the reach of law enforcement. The use of computer networks to produce and distribute child pornography has become the subject of increasing attention. Today, these materials can be imported across national

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borders at the speed of light. The more overt manifestations of internet child pornography entail a modest degree of organization, as required by the infrastructure of IRC and WWW, but the activity appears largely confined to individuals. By contrast, some of the less publicly visible traffic in child pornography activity appears to entail a greater degree of organization. Although knowledge is confined to that conduct which has been the target of successful police investigation, there appear to have been a number of networks which extend cross-nationally, use sophisticated technologies of concealment, and entail a significant degree of coordination. Illustrative of such activity was the Wonderland Club, an international network with members in at least 14 nations ranging from Europe, to North America, to Australia. Access to the group was password protected, and content was encrypted. Police investigation of the activity, codenamed "Operation Cathedral" resulted in approximately 100 arrests around the world, and the seizure of over 100,000 images in September, 1998.

3. Telecommunications Piracy
Digital technology permits perfect reproduction and easy dissemination of print, graphics, sound, and multimedia combinations. The temptation to reproduce copyrighted material for personal use, for sale at a lower price, or indeed, for free distribution, has proven irresistible to many. This has caused considerable concern to owners of copyrighted material. Each year, it has been estimated that losses of between US$15 and US$17 billion are sustained by industry by reason of copyright infringement (United States, Information Infrastructure Task Force 1995, 131). The Software Publishers Association has estimated that $7.4 billion worth of software was lost to piracy in 1993 with $2 billion of that being stolen from the Internet (Meyer and Underwood 1994). Ryan (1998) puts the cost of foreign piracy to American industry at more than $10 billion in 1996, including $1.8 billion in the film industry, $1.2 billion in music, $3.8 billion in business application software, and $690 million in book publishing.
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According to the Straits Times (8/11/99) A copy of the most recent James Bond Film The World is Not Enough, was available free on the internet before its official release. When creators of a work, in whatever medium, are unable to profit from their creations, there can be a chilling effect on creative effort generally, in addition to financial loss.

4. Dissemination of Offensive Materials

Content considered by some to be objectionable exists in abundance in cyberspace. This includes, among much else, sexually explicit materials, racist propaganda, and instructions for the fabrication of incendiary and explosive devices. Telecommunications systems can also be used for harassing, threatening or intrusive communications, from the traditional obscene telephone call to its contemporary manifestation in "cyber-stalking", in which persistent messages are sent to an unwilling recipient. One man allegedly stole nude photographs of his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend and posted them on the Internet, along with her name, address and telephone number. The unfortunate couple, residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, received phone calls and e-mails from strangers as far away as Denmark who said they had seen the photos on the Internet. Investigations also revealed that the suspect was maintaining records about the woman's movements and compiling information about her family (Spice and Sink 1999). In another case a rejected suitor posted invitations on the Internet under the name of a 28year-old woman, the would-be object of his affections that said that she had fantasies of rape and gang rape. He then communicated via email with men who replied to the solicitations and gave out personal information about the woman, including her address, phone number, details of her physical appearance and how to bypass her home security system. Strange men turned up at her home on six different occasions and she received many obscene phone calls. While the woman was not physically assaulted, she would not answer the phone, was afraid to leave her home, and lost her job (Miller 1999; Miller and Maharaj 1999). One former university student in California used email to harass 5 female students in 1998. He bought information on the Internet about the women using a professor's credit card and then sent 100 messages including death threats, graphic sexual descriptions and references to

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their daily activities. He apparently made the threats in response to perceived teasing about his appearance (Associated Press 1999a). Computer networks may also be used in furtherance of extortion. The Sunday Times (London) reported in 1996 that over 40 financial institutions in Britain and the United States had been attacked electronically over the previous three years. In England, financial institutions were reported to have paid significant amounts to sophisticated computer criminals who threatened to wipe out computer systems. (The Sunday Times, June 2, 1996). The article cited four incidents between 1993 and 1995 in which a total of 42.5 million Pounds Sterling were paid by senior executives of the organizations concerned, who were convinced of the extortionists' capacity to crash their computer systems (Denning 1999 233-4).

5. Electronic Money Laundering and Tax Evasion

For some time now, electronic funds transfers have assisted in concealing and in moving the proceeds of crime. Emerging technologies will greatly assist in concealing the origin of illgotten gains. Legitimately derived income may also be more easily concealed from taxation authorities. Large financial institutions will no longer be the only ones with the ability to achieve electronic funds transfers transiting numerous jurisdictions at the speed of light. The development of informal banking institutions and parallel banking systems may permit central bank supervision to be bypassed, but can also facilitate the evasion of cash transaction reporting requirements in those nations which have them. Traditional underground banks, which have flourished in Asian countries for centuries, will enjoy even greater capacity through the use of telecommunications. With the emergence and proliferation of various technologies of electronic commerce, one can easily envisage how traditional countermeasures against money laundering and tax evasion may soon be of limited value. I may soon be able to sell you a quantity of heroin, in return for an untraceable transfer of stored value to my "smart-card", which I then download anonymously to my account in a financial institution situated in an overseas jurisdiction which protects the privacy of banking clients. I can discreetly draw upon these funds as and when I may require, downloading them back to my stored value card (Wahlert 1996).

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6. Electronic Vandalism, Terrorism and Extortion

As never before, western industrial society is dependent upon complex data processing and telecommunications systems. Damage to, or interference with, any of these systems can lead to catastrophic consequences. Whether motivated by curiosity or vindictiveness electronic intruders cause inconvenience at best, and have the potential for inflicting massive harm While this potential has yet to be realised, a number of individuals and protest groups have hacked the official web pages of various governmental and commercial organizations for e.g.:(Rathmell 1997). http://www.2600.com/hacked_pages/ (visited 4 January 2000). This may also operate in reverse: early in 1999 an organized hacking incident was apparently directed at a server which hosted the Internet domain for East Timor, which at the time was seeking its independence from Indonesia (Creed 1999). Defence planners around the world are investing substantially in information warfare means of disrupting the information technology infrastructure of defence systems (Stix 1995). Attempts were made to disrupt the computer systems of the Sri Lankan Government (Associated Press 1998), and of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during the 1999 bombing of Belgrade (BBC 1999). One case, which illustrates the transnational reach of extortionists, involved a number of German hackers who compromised the system of an Internet service provider in South Florida, disabling eight of the ISPs ten servers. The offenders obtained personal information and credit card details of 10,000 subscribers, and, communicating via electronic mail through one of the compromised accounts, demanded that US$30,000 be delivered to a mail drop in Germany. Co-operation between US and German authorities resulted in the arrest of the extortionists (Bauer 1998). More recently, an extortionist in Eastern Europe obtained the credit card details of customers of a North American based on-line music retailer, and published some on the Internet when the retailer refused to comply with his demands (Markoff 2000).

7. Sales and Investment Fraud

As electronic commerce becomes more prevalent, the application of digital technology to fraudulent endeavours will be that much greater. The use of the telephone for fraudulent sales

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pitches, deceptive charitable solicitations, or bogus investment overtures is increasingly common. Cyberspace now abounds with a wide variety of investment opportunities, from traditional securities such as stocks and bonds, to more exotic opportunities such as coconut farming, the sale and leaseback of automatic teller machines, and worldwide telephone lotteries (Cella and Stark 1997 837-844). Indeed, the digital age has been accompanied by unprecedented opportunities for misinformation. Fraudsters now enjoy direct access to millions of prospective victims around the world, instantaneously and at minimal cost. Classic pyramid schemes and "Exciting, Low-Risk Investment Opportunities" are not uncommon. The technology of the World Wide Web is ideally suited to investment solicitations. In the words of two SEC staff "At very little cost, and from the privacy of a basement office or living room, the fraudster can produce a home page that looks better and more sophisticated than that of a Fortune 500 company" (Cella and Stark 1997, 822).

8. Illegal Interception of Telecommunications

Developments in telecommunications provide new opportunities for electronic eavesdropping. From activities as time-honoured as surveillance of an unfaithful spouse, to the newest forms of political and industrial espionage, telecommunications interception has increasing applications. Here again, technological developments create new vulnerabilities. The electromagnetic signals emitted by a computer may themselves be intercepted. Cables may act as broadcast antennas. Existing law does not prevent the remote monitoring of computer radiation. It has been reported that the notorious American hacker Kevin Poulsen was able to gain access to law enforcement and national security wiretap data prior to his arrest in 1991 (Littman 1997). In 1995, hackers employed by a criminal organization attacked the communications system of the Amsterdam Police. The hackers succeeded in gaining police operational intelligence, and in disrupting police communications (Rathmell 1997).

9. Electronic Funds Transfer Fraud

Electronic funds transfer systems have begun to proliferate, and so has the risk that such transactions may be intercepted and diverted. Valid credit card numbers can be intercepted

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electronically, as well as physically; the digital information stored on a card can be counterfeited. Of course, we don't need Willie Sutton to remind us that banks are where they keep the money. In 1994, a Russian hacker Vladimir Levin, operating from St Petersburg, accessed the computers of Citibank's central wire transfer department, and transferred funds from large corporate accounts to other accounts which had been opened by his accomplices in The United States, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, and Israel. Officials from one of the corporate victims, located in Argentina, notified the bank, and the suspect accounts, located in San Francisco, were frozen. The accomplice was arrested. Another accomplice was caught attempting to withdraw funds from an account in Rotterdam. Although Russian law precluded Levin's extradition, he was arrested during a visit to the United States and subsequently imprisoned. (Denning 1999, 55). The above forms of computer-related crime are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and need not occur in isolation. Just as an armed robber might steal an automobile to facilitate a quick getaway, so too can one steal telecommunications services and use them for purposes of vandalism, fraud, or in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy.1 Computer-related crime may be compound in nature, combining two or more of the generic forms outlined above.

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OTHER TYPES OF CYBER CRIME

1. HACKING
Hacking in simple terms means an illegal intrusion into a computer system and/or network. There is an equivalent term to hacking i.e. cracking, but from Indian Laws perspective there is no difference between the term hacking and cracking. Every act committed towards breaking into a computer and/or network is hacking. Hackers write or use ready-made computer programs to attack the target computer. They possess the desire to destruct and they get the kick out of such destruction. Some hackers hack for personal monetary gains, such as to stealing the credit card information, transferring money from various bank accounts to their own account followed by withdrawal of money. They extort money from some corporate giant threatening him to publish the stolen information which is critical in nature. Government websites are the hot targets of the hackers due to the press coverage, it receives. Hackers enjoy the media coverage.

Motive Behind The Crime

a. b. c. d.

Greed Power Publicity Revenge

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e. f. g. h.

Adventure Desire to access forbidden information Destructive mindset Wants to sell n/w security services

2. Child Pornography
The Internet is being highly used by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually, worldwide. The internet is very fast becoming a household commodity in India. Its explosion has made the children a viable victim to the cyber crime. As more homes have access to internet, more children would be using the internet and more are the chances of falling victim to the aggression of pedophiles. The easy access to the pornographic contents readily and freely available over the internet lower the inhibitions of the children. Pedophiles lure the children by distributing pornographic material, and then they try to meet them for sex or to take their nude photographs including their engagement in sexual positions. Sometimes Pedophiles contact children in the chat rooms posing as teenagers or a child of similar age, then they start becoming friendlier with them and win their confidence. Then slowly pedophiles start sexual chat to help children shed their inhibitions about sex and then call them out for personal interaction. Then starts actual exploitation of the children by offering them some money or falsely promising them good opportunities in life. The pedophiles then sexually exploit the children either by using them as sexual objects or by taking their pornographic pictures in order to sell those over the internet. In physical world, parents know the face of dangers and they know how to avoid & face the problems by following simple rules and accordingly they advice their children to keep away from dangerous things and ways. But in case of cyber world, most of the parents do not themselves know about the basics in internet and dangers posed by various services offered over the internet. Hence the children are left unprotected in the cyber world. Pedophiles take

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advantage of this situation and lure the children, who are not advised by their parents or by their teachers about what is wrong and what is right for them while browsing the internet.

How Do They Operate

a. Pedophiles use false identity to trap the children/teenagers.

b. Pedophiles contact children/teens in various chat rooms which are used by children/teen to interact with other children/teen. c. Befriend the child/teen. d. Extract personal information from the child/teen by winning his confidence.
e. Gets the e-mail address of the child/teen and starts making contacts on the victim e-mail

address as well. f. Starts sending pornographic images/text to the victim including child pornographic images in order to help child/teen shed his inhibitions so that a feeling is created in the mind of the victim that what is being fed to him is normal and that everybody does it. g. Extract personal information from child/teen. h. At the end of it, the pedophile set up a meeting with the child/teen out of the house and then drag him into the net to further sexually assault him or to use him as a sex object. In order to prevent your child/teen from falling into the trap of pedophile, read the tips under Tips & Tricks heading.

3. Cyber Stalking
Cyber Stalking can be defined as the repeated acts harassment or threatening behavior of the cyber criminal towards the victim by using internet services. Stalking in General terms can be referred to as the repeated acts of harassment targeting the victim such as following the

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victim, making harassing phone calls, killing the victims pet, vandalizing victims property, leaving written messages or objects. Stalking may be followed by serious violent acts such as physical harm to the victim and the same has to be treated and viewed seriously. It all depends on the course of conduct of the stalker. Both kind of Stalkers Online & Offline have desire to control the victims life. Majority of the stalkers are the dejected lovers or ex-lovers, who then want to harass the victim because they failed to satisfy their secret desires. Most of the stalkers are men and victim female.

How Do They Operate

a. Collect all personal information about the victim such as name, family background, Telephone Numbers of residence and work place, daily routine of the victim, address of residence and place of work, date of birth etc. If the stalker is one of the acquaintances of the victim he can easily get this information. If stalker is a stranger to victim, he collects the information from the internet resources such as various profiles, the victim may have filled in while opening the chat or e-mail account or while signing an account with some website. b. The stalker may post this information on any website related to sex-services or dating services, posing as if the victim is posting this information and invite the people to call the victim on her telephone numbers to have sexual services. Stalker even uses very filthy and obscene language to invite the interested persons. c. People of all kind from nook and corner of the World, who come across this information, start calling the victim at her residence and/or work place, asking for sexual services or relationships. d. Some stalkers subscribe the e-mail account of the victim to innumerable pornographic and sex sites, because of which victim starts receiving such kind of unsolicited e-mails. e. Some stalkers keep on sending repeated e-mails asking for various kinds of favors or threaten the victim.

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f. In online stalking the stalker can make third party to harass the victim. g. Follow their victim from board to board. They hangout on the same BBs as their victim, many times posting notes to the victim, making sure the victim is aware that he/she is being followed. Many times they will flame their victim (becoming argumentative, insulting) to get their attention. h. Stalkers will almost always make contact with their victims through email. The letters may be loving, threatening, or sexually explicit. He will many times use multiple names when contacting the victim.
i.

Contact victim via telephone. If the stalker is able to access the victims telephone, he will many times make calls to the victim to threaten, harass, or intimidate them.

j. Track the victim to his/her home.

Definition of Cyber stalking

Although there is no universally accepted definition of cyber stalking, the term is used in this report to refer to the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person. Stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior that an individual engages in repeatedly, such as following a person, appearing at a persons home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving written messages or objects, or vandalizing a persons property. Most stalking laws require that the perpetrator make a credible threat of violence against the victim; others include threats against the victims immediate family; and still others require only that the alleged stalkers course of conduct constitute an implied threat. (1) While some conduct involving annoying or menacing behavior might fall short of illegal stalking, such behavior may be a prelude to stalking and violence and should be treated seriously.

Nature and Extent of Cyber stalking

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An existing problem aggravated by new technology. Although online harassment and threats can take many forms, cyber stalking shares important characteristics with offline stalking. Many stalkers online or offline are motivated by a desire to exert control over their victims and engage in similar types of behavior to accomplish this end. As with offline stalking, the available evidence (which is largely anecdotal) suggests that the majority of cyber stalkers are men and the majority of their victims are women, although there have been reported cases of women cyber stalking men and of same-sex cyber stalking. In many cases, the cyber stalker and the victim had a prior relationship, and the cyber stalking begins when the victim attempts to break off the relationship. However, there also have been many instances of cyber stalking by strangers. Given the enormous amount of personal information available through the Internet, a cyber stalker can easily locate private information about a potential victim with a few mouse clicks or key strokes. The fact that cyber stalking does not involve physical contact may create the misperception that it is more benign than physical stalking. This is not necessarily true. As the Internet becomes an ever more integral part of our personal and professional lives, stalkers can take advantage of the ease of communications as well as increased access to personal information. In addition, the ease of use and non-confrontational, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous nature of Internet communications may remove disincentives to cyber stalking. Put another way, whereas a potential stalker may be unwilling or unable to confront a victim in person or on the telephone, he or she may have little hesitation sending harassing or threatening electronic communications to a victim. Finally, as with physical stalking, online harassment and threats may be a prelude to more serious behavior, including physical violence.

Phishing
In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT Administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website

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whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Even when using server authentication, it may require tremendous skill to detect that the website is fake. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users, and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies. Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures. Phishing, also referred to as brand spoofing or carding, is a variation on "fishing," the idea being that bait is thrown out with the hopes that while most will ignore the bait, some will be tempted into biting. A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996.

Phishing email From: *****Bank [mailto:support@****Bank.com] Sent: 08 June 2004 03:25 To: India Subject: Official information from ***** Bank Dear valued ***** Bank Customer! For security purposes your account has been randomly chosen for verification. To verify your account information we are asking you to provide us with all the data we are requesting. Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity and access to your account will be denied. Please click on the link below to get to the bank secure page and verify your account details. Thank you. https://infinity.*****bank.co.in/Verify.jsp

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****** Bank Limited

Spam
Spam is a generic term used to describe electronic 'junk mail' or unwanted messages sent to your email account or mobile phone. These messages vary, but are essentially commercial and often annoying in their sheer volume. They may try to persuade you to buy a product or service, or visit a website where you can make purchases; or they may attempt to trick you into divulging your bank account or credit card details. More information about spam is available from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA website).

Scams
The power of the Internet and email communication has made it all too easy for email scams to flourish. These schemes often arrive uninvited by email. Many are related to the welldocumented Nigerian Scam or Lotto Scams and use similar tactics in one form or another. While the actual amount of money lost by businesses and the community is unknown, the number of people claiming to have been defrauded by these scams is relatively low. More information about scams is available from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) SCAM watch website and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission FIDO website.

Spyware
Spyware is generally considered to be software that is secretly installed on a computer and takes things from it without the permission or knowledge of the user. Spyware may take personal information, business information, bandwidth; or processing capacity and secretly gives it to someone else. It is recognized as a growing problem. More information about taking care of spyware is available from the Department of Broadband, Communication, and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) website.

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4. Denial Of Service Attack

This is an act by the criminal, who floods the bandwidth of the victims network or fills his email box with spam mail depriving him of the services he is entitled to access or provide.

5. Virus Dissemination
Malicious software that attaches itself to other software. (Virus,, worms,, Trojan Horse,, Time bomb,, Logic Bomb,, Rabbit and Bacterium are the malicious softwares).
6.

Software Piracy
Theft of software through the illegal copying of genuine programs or the counterfeiting

and distribution of products intended to pass for the original. Retail revenue losses worldwide are ever increasing due to this crime. It can be done in various ways- End user copying, Hard disk loading,, Counterfeiting,, Illegal downloads from the internet etc
7.

Spoofing
Getting one computer on a network to pretend to have the identity of another computer,

usually one with special access privileges, so as to obtain access to the other computers on the network..
8.

Net Extortion
Copying the companys confidential data in order to extort said company for huge

amount.

9. SALAMI ATTACK
In such crime criminal makes insignificant changes in such a manner that such changes would go unnoticed. Criminal makes such program that deducts small amount like Rs. 2.50 per

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month from the account of all the customer of the Bank and deposit the same in his account. In this case no account holder will approach the bank for such small amount but criminal gains huge amount.

10.SALE OF NARCOTICS
Sale & Purchase through net. There are web sites which offer sale and shipment off contrabands drugs. They may use the techniques off stenography for hiding the messages.

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CLASSIFICATION OF CYBER CRIME

Mr. Pavan Duggal, who is the President of cyber laws, net and consultant, in a report has clearly defined the various categories and types of cybercrimes. Cybercrimes can be basically divided into 3 major categories:

1. Cybercrimes Against Persons

Cybercrimes committed against persons include various crimes like transmission of child-pornography, harassment of any one with the use of a computer such as e-mail. The trafficking, distribution, posting, and dissemination of obscene material including pornography and indecent exposure, constitutes one of the most important Cybercrimes known today. The potential harm of such a crime to humanity can hardly be amplified. This is one Cybercrime which threatens to undermine the growth of the younger generation as also leave irreparable scars and injury on the younger generation, if not controlled. A minor girl in Ahmadabad was lured to a private place through cyber chat by a man, who, along with his friends, attempted to gang-rape her. As some passersby heard her cry, she was rescued. Another example wherein the damage was not done to a person but to the masses is the case of the Melissa virus. The Melissa virus first appeared on the internet in March of 1999. It spread rapidly throughout computer systems in the United States and Europe. It is estimated that the virus caused 80 million dollars in damages to computers worldwide.

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In the United States alone, the virus made its way through 1.2 million computers in onefifth of the country's largest businesses. David Smith pleaded guilty on Dec. 9, 1999 to state and federal charges associated with his creation of the Melissa virus. There are numerous examples of such computer viruses few of them being "Melissa" and "love bug".

2. Cybercrimes Against Property

The second category of Cybercrimes is that of Cybercrimes against all forms of property. These crimes include computer vandalism (destruction of others' property), transmission of harmful programmes. A Mumbai-based upstart engineering company lost a say and much money in the business when the rival company, an industry major, stole the technical database from their computers with the help of a corporate cyber spy.

3. Cybercrimes Against Government

The third category of Cybercrimes relate to Cybercrimes against Government. Cyber terrorism is one distinct kind of crime in this category. The growth of internet has shown that the medium of Cyberspace is being used by individuals and groups to threaten the international governments as also to terrorize the citizens of a country. This crime manifests itself into terrorism when an individual "cracks" into a government or military maintained website. The Parliament of India passed its first Cyber law, the Information Technology Act in 2000. It not only provides the legal infrastructure for E-commerce in India but also at the same time, gives draconian powers to the Police to enter and search, without any warrant, any public place for the purpose of nabbing cybercriminals and preventing cybercrime. Also, the Indian Cyber law talks of the arrest of any person who is about to commit a cybercrime. The Act defines five cybercrimes damage to computer source code, hacking, publishing electronic information which is lascivious or prurient, breach of confidentiality and publishing false digital signatures. The Act also specifies that cybercrimes can only be investigated by an official holding no less a rank than that of Dy. Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP).

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It is common that many systems operators do not share information when they are victimized by crackers. They don't contact law enforcement officers when their computer systems are invaded, preferring instead to fix the damage and take action to keep crackers from gaining access again with as little public attention as possible. According to Sundari Nanda, SP, CBI, "most of the times the victims do not complain, may be because they are aware of the extent of the crime committed against them, or as in the case of business houses, they don't want to confess their system is not secure". As the research shows, computer crime poses a real threat. Those who believe otherwise simply have not been awakened by the massive losses and setbacks experienced by companies worldwide. Money and intellectual property have been stolen, corporate operations impeded, and jobs lost as a result of computer crime. Similarly, information systems in government and business alike have been compromised. The economic impact of computer crime is staggering (great difficulty).

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REASONS FOR CYBER CRIME

Hart in his work The Concept of Law has said human beings are vulnerable so rule of law is required to protect them. Applying this to the cyberspace we may say that computers are vulnerable (capable of attack) so rule of law is required to protect and safeguard them against cyber crime. The reasons for the vulnerability of computers may be said to be:

1.

Capacity To Store Data In Comparatively Small Space-

The computer has unique characteristic of storing data in a very small space. This affords to remove or derive information either through physical or virtual medium makes it much easier.

2. Easy To Access
The problem encountered in guarding a computer system from unauthorised access is that there is every possibility of breach not due to human error but due to the complex technology. By secretly implanted logic bomb, key loggers that can steal access codes, advanced voice recorders; retina imagers etc. that can fool biometric systems and bypass firewalls can be utilized to get past many a security system.

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3. Complex
The computers work on operating systems and these operating systems in turn are composed of millions of codes. Human mind is fallible and it is not possible that there might not be a lapse at any stage. The cyber criminals take advantage of these lacunas and penetrate into the computer system.

4. Negligence
Negligence is very closely connected with human conduct. It is therefore very probable that while protecting the computer system there might be any negligence, which in turn provides a cyber criminal to gain access and control over the computer system.

5. Loss Of Evidence
Loss of evidence is a very common & obvious problem as all the data are routinely destroyed. Further collection of data outside the territorial extent also paralyses this system of crime investigation.

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CYBER CRIMINALS
The cyber criminals constitute of various groups/ category. This division may be justified on the basis of the object that they have in their mind. The following are the category of cyber criminals1.

Children And Adolescents Between The Age Group Of 6 18 Years

The simple reason for this type of delinquent (A young offender) behaviour pattern in children is seen mostly due to the inquisitiveness to know and explore the things. Other cognate reason may be to prove themselves to be outstanding amongst other children in their group. Further the reasons may be psychological even. E.g. the Bal Bharati (Delhi) case was the outcome of harassment of the delinquent by his friends.

2. Organised Hackers
These kinds of hackers are mostly organised together to fulfil certain objective. The reason may be to fulfil their political bias, fundamentalism, etc. The Pakistanis are said to be one of the best quality hackers in the world. They mainly target the Indian government sites with the purpose to fulfil their political objectives. Further the NASA as well as the Microsoft sites is always under attack by the hackers.

3. Professional Hackers / Crackers

Their work is motivated by the colour of money. These kinds of hackers are mostly employed to hack the site of the rivals and get credible, reliable and valuable information. Further they are even employed to crack the system of the employer basically as a measure to make it safer by detecting the loopholes.

4. Discontented Employees
This group include those people who have been either sacked by their employer or are dissatisfied with their employer. To avenge they normally hack the system of their employee.

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MODE AND MANNER OF COMMITING CYBER CRIME 1. Unauthorized Access To Computer Systems Or Networks / Hacking
This kind of offence is normally referred as hacking in the generic sense. However the framers of the Information Technology Act 2000 have no where used this term so to avoid any confusion we would not interchangeably use the word hacking for unauthorized access as the latter has wide connotation.

2. Theft Of Information Contained In Electronic Form

This includes information stored in computer hard disks, removable storage media etc. Theft may be either by appropriating the data physically or by tampering them through the virtual medium.

3. Email Bombing
This kind of activity refers to sending large numbers of mail to the victim, which may be an individual or a company or even mail servers there by ultimately resulting into crashing.

4. Data Diddling
This kind of an attack involves altering raw data just before a computer processes it and then changing it back after the processing is completed. The electricity board faced similar problem of data diddling while the department was being computerised.

5. Salami Attacks
This kind of crime is normally prevalent in the financial institutions or for the purpose of committing financial crimes. An important feature of this type of offence is that the alteration is so small that it would normally go unnoticed. E.g. the Ziegler case wherein a logic bomb was introduced in the banks system, which deducted 10 cents from every account and deposited it in a particular account.

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6. Denial Of Service AttackThe computer of the victim is flooded with more requests than it can handle which cause it to crash. Distributed Denial of Service (DDS) attack is also a type of denial of service attack, in which the offenders are wide in number and widespread. E.g. Amazon, Yahoo.

7. Virus / Worm Attacks

Viruses are programs that attach themselves to a computer or a file and then circulate themselves to other files and to other computers on a network. They usually affect the data on a computer, either by altering or deleting it. Worms, unlike viruses do not need the host to attach themselves to. They merely make functional copies of themselves and do this repeatedly till they eat up all the available space on a computer's memory. E.g. love bug virus, which affected at least 5 % of the computers of the globe. The losses were accounted to be $ 10 million. The world's most famous worm was the Internet worm let loose on the Internet by Robert Morris sometime in 1988. Almost brought development of Internet to a complete halt.

8. Logic Bombs
These are event dependent programs. This implies that these programs are created to do something only when a certain event (known as a trigger event) occurs. E.g. even some viruses may be termed logic bombs because they lie dormant all through the year and become active only on a particular date (like the Chernobyl virus).

9. Trojan Attacks
This term has its origin in the word Trojan horse. In software field this means an unauthorized programme, which passively gains control over anothers system by representing itself as an authorised programme. The most common form of installing a Trojan is through e-mail. E.g. a Trojan was installed in the computer of a lady film director in the U.S. while chatting. The cyber criminal through the web cam installed in the computer obtained her nude photographs. He further harassed this lady.

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10. Internet Time Thefts

Normally in these kinds of thefts the Internet surfing hours of the victim are used up by another person. This is done by gaining access to the login ID and the password. E.g. Colonel Bajwas case- the Internet hours were used up by any other person. This was perhaps one of the first reported cases related to cyber crime in India. However this case made the police infamous as to their lack of understanding of the nature of cyber crime.

11. Web Jacking

This term is derived from the term hi jacking. In these kinds of offences the hacker gains access and control over the web site of another. He may even mutilate or change the information on the site. This may be done for fulfilling political objectives or for money. E.g. recently the site of MIT (Ministry of Information Technology) was hacked by the Pakistani hackers and some obscene matter was placed therein. Further the site of Bombay crime branch was also web jacked. Another case of web jacking is that of the gold fish case. In this case the site was hacked and the information pertaining to gold fish was changed. Further a ransom of US $ 1 million was demanded as ransom. Thus web jacking is a process where by control over the site of another is made backed by some consideration for it.

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FINANCIAL SECTOR
Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which

encompasses a broad range of organizations that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds and some government sponsored enterprises. As of 2004, the financial services industry represented 20% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 in the United States.

The term "financial services" became more prevalent in the United States partly as a result of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of the late 1990s, which enabled different types of companies operating in the U.S. financial services industry at that time to merge.[2] Companies usually have two distinct approaches to this new type of business. One approach would be a bank which simply buys an insurance company or an investment bank, keeps the original brands of the acquired firm, and adds the acquisition to its holding company simply to diversify its earnings. Outside the U.S. (e.g., in Japan), non-financial services companies are permitted within the holding company. In this scenario, each company still looks independent, and has its own customers, etc. In the other style, a bank would simply create its own brokerage division or insurance division and attempt to sell those products to its own existing customers, with incentives for combining all things with one company.

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The financial sector is a component of a nation's economy created by the ebb and flow of capital in the financial industry. Financial services include everything from personal banking to the insurance industry, and they can make up a sizable portion of a nation's economy. Evaluation of the true value of the financial sector can be complicated, as the financial industry involves a great deal of paper pushing which can sometimes be difficult to track and pin down. Financial institutions like banks, insurance companies, brokerage houses, investment firms, and so forth are all part of the financial sector. They can trade capital in a variety of ways, including funds, derivatives, investments, debt instruments, and so forth, with much of the financial sector being dependent on the extension of credit. Consumers interact directly with the financial sector every time they apply for a credit card, deposit a paycheck in a bank, or take out a home loan, and these actions occur on a much larger scale between institutions and companies. One of the pinnacles of the financial sector is Wall Street in the United States. As a physical place, Wall Street houses some of the biggest powerhouses in the global financial industry, including the New York Stock Exchange and numerous multi-billion dollar firms. Wall Street is also sometimes discussed as an entity, and a metaphor for the financial sector as a whole, especially in political campaign rhetoric.

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Financial Sector of India

Financial Sector of India is intrinsically strong, operationally sundry and exhibits competence and flexibility besides being sensitive to Indias economic aims of developing a market oriented, industrious and viable economy. An established financial sector assists greater standards of endowments and endorses expansion in the economy with its intensity and exposure. The fiscal sector in India entails banks, financial organization, markets and services. The sector is classified as organized and conventional sector that is also recognized as unofficial finance market. Fiscal transactions in an organized industry are executed by a number of financial organizations which are commercial in nature and offer monetary services to the society. Further classification includes banking and non-banking enterprises, often recognized as activities that are client specific. The chief controller of the finance in India is the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and is regarded as the supreme organization in the fiscal structure. Other significant fiscal organizations are business banks, domestic rural banks, cooperative banks and development banks. Nonbanking fiscal organizations entail credit and charter firms and other organizations like Unit Trust of India, Provident Funds, Life Insurance Corporation, Mutual funds, GIC, etc.
Financial Sector of India Eligibility for government autonomy Mentioned below are certain criterions that are required to be fulfilled for acquiring government autonomy in India:

Availability of sufficient fund of up to 8% Accessibility of total non-performing wealth of below 9% Minimum net possessed funds of more than USD 2.5 million and net revenues of minimum past three years. Financial institutions that satisfy the abovementioned requirements will be authorized functional independence in almost all managerial areas.

Financial

Sector

of

India

RBI

guidelines

for

NBFC's

The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed its guidelines for the operation of non-bank finance companies (NBFCs) in India considering the various investments from the investors. It has also permitted leasing of machinery and rent-buying credit firms with endowment level rankings to avail public savings increase the maximum limit on the amount of public investments on these NBFCs that may allow and expand the closing date for observance on its norms by two years. The fiscal competitiveness of several NBFCs persists to be of importance to the administration and reserve bank of India controllers. There is a significant merging activity in this industry as NBFCs are regulated by stringent yardsticks that are obligatory to fulfill. In addition, India has entered into new agreements with WTO in the area of fiscal services in Page 43 of 74

Geneva Financial Sector

on of India

December Chief

1997. Characteristics

Some of the major characteristics of Financial Sector of India are:

The financial sector of India allows Most Favored Nation (MFN) reputation to all international banks and firms offering financial facilities.

The sector has relaxed previous MFN tax exemption on banking activities.

Allows 12 new financial bank division authorizations every year to international banks, that is higher as compared to the existing 8 every year.

Raises the 10% limit of reinsurance by insurance firms in India.

Permits 51% foreign endowment in fiscal advisory, issuing, hiring, business enterprise capital, business banking and non-banking credit firms.

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CYBER CRIME IN FINANCIAL SECTOR CYBERCRIME SENDING SHOCKWAVES THROUGH FINANCIAL SECTOR

Cybercrime is shifting to the top of risk management priority lists in the financial sector. Wherever money goes, hackers are sure to follow. That logic held true in a recent survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which showed cybercrime placing a significant strain on the global financial sector. "The rise in cybercrime is not so surprising given the sector holds large volumes of the type of data cybercriminals are interested in and there is an established underground economy servicing the needs of the market for stolen and compromised data," explained PwC forensic services partner Andrew Clark. "However, our survey shows cybercrime accounts for a much greater proportion of economic crime in the [financial services] sector than in other industries." According to PwC research, cybercrime is now the second most commonly reported economic crime affecting financial services firms. Only asset misappropriation, such as rogue trading and embezzlement, was deemed a more serious risk by responding companies. In fact, the report found that cybercrime was responsible for 38 percent of all economic crimes observed in the financial sector, compared to the average rate of 16 percent seen across all other industries. Nearly half of all responding companies from the financial sector fell victim to fraud in the past 12 months, reflecting a marked increase from the 30 percent cross-industry average. These figures are not surprising considering the value of the assets held by financial institutions, but there are a number of ongoing developments contributing to the rise of cybercrime seen in recent months. Once again, the perceived level of data security risk was highest among respondents in the financial sector, reflecting a growing awareness of the unique threats posed by mobile banking services and applications. According to market research from comScore, mobile banking gained

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significant traction in 2011, as institutions catered to the evolving demands of the customers with an array of new applications. "There continues to be areas of opportunity for increasing consumer engagement across both fixed Internet and mobile platforms," explained com Score executive Sarah Lenart. "Financial institutions who want to ensure they are meeting their customers' needs must continue to expand and refine digital marketing strategies in 2012 to increase penetration and engagement." But as market demands push banks into the era of mobility, few are truly equipped to address the widespread and complex data protection challenges. According to PwC analysts, just 18 percent of responding institutions met established criteria for sound cybercrime incident response strategies. This is especially concerning in an era when hackers need only a few moments to infiltrate a network, pilfer sensitive corporate or consumer data and leave without a trace. "Overall responsibility for managing cybercrime risks rests with senior management," report authors concluded. "It is therefore essential that senior management understand the potential risks and opportunities the cyber world can present and ensure that there is clear accountability and responsibility for dealing with these risks and opportunities." There was some evidence to suggest that executive awareness is on the rise. As IT teams and compliance officers do a better job of communicating the business implications of data security frailties, more than half of responding financial professionals built the link between digital threats and operational consequences by citing reputational damage as a leading concern.

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WHAT IS FINANCIAL ABUSE AND FINANCIAL CRIME

1. While there seems to be broad agreement on the meaning of such concepts as money laundering, corruption, and tax evasion, the terms financial abuse and financial crime are far less precise, and in fact are sometimes used interchangeably. To assure clarity, including for the operational implications for the Fund and the Bank, definitions are provided below. 2. Usage of these terms (see Annex I) suggests that, among them, financial abuse has the broadest meaning, encompassing not only illegal activities that may harm financial systems, but also other activities that exploit the tax and regulatory frameworks with undesirable results (see Figure 1). When financial abuse involves financial institutions (or financial markets), it is sometimes referred to as financial sector abuse. Financial crime, which is a subset of financial abuse, can refer to any non-violent crime that generally results in a financial loss, including financial fraud. It also includes a range of illegal activities such as money laundering and tax evasion. 3. More precise definitions of financial abuse, financial crime, money laundering, and related concepts are presented below. Figure 1. Concepts of Financial Abuse Factors Contributing to Financial Abuse Poor regulatory and supervisory frame work (e.g., excessive bank secrecy, lack of disclosure rules and effective fiduciary rules for investors and their agents). Harmful tax practices

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Types of Financial Abuse

Financial Sector Crime Other Financial Crime Other Financial Abuse

Money laundering Financial fraud (e.g., check, credit card, mortgage, or insurance fraud) Tax evasion Circumvention of exchange restrictions Sale of fictitious financial instruments or insurance policies Embezzlement of non-financial institutions Tax evasion Stock manipulation Other Tax avoidance Connected party lending Stock manipulation Other

Financial abuse

Usage of the terms financial abuse and financial crime, indicate that its meaning varies on different occasions.
To clarify usage, it is helpful to distinguish clearly between factors or incentives that facilitate or encourage financial abuse, such as poor regulatory and supervisory frameworks and weak tax systems, and activities that constitute financial abuse. Accordingly, the concept of financial abuse is interpreted in a very broad sense, as including illegal financial Annex I provides examples from

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international usage. As regards national usages, the Edwards Report, commissioned by the United Kingdom in 1998, discusses money laundering, tax evasion, drug trafficking, and fraud as well as illegal capital flight under the general title of financial crime and money laundering. (See Home Department, Review of Financial Regulation in the Crown Dependencies, Command Paper, November 1998, Chapters 14 and 15.) The International Narcotics Strategy Report of the U.S. Department of State discusses money laundering along with other financial crimes and tax evasion, and stresses that excessive bank secrecy laws make financial systems vulnerable to abuse from criminal activities, ranging from terrorism to tax evasion. (See U.S. Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, March 1999.)- -activities, many of which have the potential to harm financial systems, and legal activities that exploit undesirable features of tax and regulatory systems.

. Countries also have different legal characterization of specific acts, such as money laundering, corruption, and tax evasion. For example, considerable variation exists among countries as to which crimes may give rise to proceeds that may be laundered. The concept of corruption is also not uniformly defined. For example, in some countries so-called facilitation or grease payments given to induce foreign public officials to perform their functions are not illegal, while in others, these are treated as illegal bribes.

Agreement is also absent as to other types of financial crime. Some countries consider very low tax rates as abusive or harmful tax competition while others do not. Differences also exist on what is excessive in excessive bank secrecy. Differences exist among jurisdictions as to what acts constitute crimes, which raise questions as to which domestic laws one country may help another in enforcing. For example, some countries maintain a broad range of exchange controls (e.g., capital controls), violations of which are financial crimes. These financial crimes may not, however, be crimes in other countries. Financial crime No internationally accepted definition of financial crime exists. Rather, the term expresses different concepts depending on the jurisdiction and on the context. This paper interprets financial crime in a broad sense, as any nonPage 49 of 74

violent crime resulting in a financial loss. When a financial institution is involved, the term financial sector crime is used. This difference among jurisdictions is reflected in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Officials in International Business Transactions ("OECD Anti-Bribery Convention"), which in requiring signatories to make the bribery of foreign public officials a crime excludes facilitation payments. See Article 1, OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (entered into force February 15, 1999); Article 1, Commentaries on the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (adopted by the Negotiating Conference on November 21, 1997). See Annex II for the OECD concept of harmful tax competition. Bank secrecy or customer confidentiality is rightfully expected by bank customers and normally is protected by law. It embodies some level of protection of confidentiality of information on individual and business affairs from others, including from government. However, bank supervisors normally have access to such information but cannot share it with government agencies. Banks separately provide information on interest income to tax authorities. Annex III surveys the evolving forms of financial crime. Financial institutions can be involved in financial crime in three ways: as victim, as perpetrator, or as an instrumentality. Under the first category, financial institutions can be subject to the different types of fraud including, e.g., misrepresentation of financial information, embezzlement, check and credit card fraud, securities fraud, insurance fraud, and pension fraud. Under the second (less common) category, financial institutions can commit different types of fraud on others, including, e.g., the sale of fraudulent financial products, self dealing, and misappropriation of client funds. In the third category are instances where financial institutions are used to keep or transfer funds, either wittingly or unwittingly, that are themselves the profits or proceeds of a crime, regardless of whether the crime is itself financial in nature. One of the most important examples of this third category is money laundering. 1. Financial institutions can be used as an instrumentality to keep or transfer the proceeds of a crime. In addition, whenever a financial institution is an instrumentality of crime, the underlying, or predicate, crime is itself often a financial crime. There is a growing perception in many key jurisdictions that the most rapidly growing category of predicate crimes are financial, although illegal drug trafficking remains a major predicate crime. Although the circumstances vary from country to country, the preeminence of financial crimes as predicate offenses is found mainly:

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(i)In major financial centers, and (ii) In the location of a financial institution (e.g., where the criminal profits are laundered) which may be a different location from where the predicate crime was committed.

THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL ABUSE & FINANCIAL CRIME

1. Financial system abuse has potentially negative consequences for a country's macro economic performance, impose welfare losses, and may also have negative cross border negative externalities. Globalization and financial market integration in particular facilitates financial abuse. This section briefly reviews the very limited empirical and indirect evidence on the magnitude of financial system abuse, financial crime, and money laundering. 2.. Trust underpins the existence and development of financial markets. The effective functioning of financial markets relies heavily on the expectation that high professional, legal, and ethical standards are observed and enforced. A reputation for integritysoundness, honesty, adherence to standards and codesis one of the most valued assets by investors. For example, black market peso exchange system, the so-called hawala or hundi system of informal banking found in South Asia, and East Asian system originally based on chits or tokens (see FATF, Report on Money Laundering Typologies, 19992000, February 3, 2000). For example, a U.S. State Departments Report viewed bribery and corruption as important factors in criminal exploitation of financial systems and institutions (see The U.S. Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes, March 1999). 3.Tax competition, or harmful tax practices and their impact, will be addressed in a future staff paper financial institutions, and jurisdictions. Various forms of financial system abuse may compromise financial institutions and jurisdictions reputation, undermine investors trust in them, and therefore weaken the financial system. The important link between financial market integrity and financial stability is underscored in the Basel Core Principles for Effective Supervision and in the Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and

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Financial Policies, particularly those principles and codes that most directly address the prevention, uncovering, and reporting of financial system abuse, including financial crime, and money laundering. 4. Financial system abuse may have other negative macroeconomic consequences. For example, it could compromise bank soundness with potentially large fiscal liabilities, lessen the ability to attract foreign investment, and increase the volatility of international capital flows and exchange rates. In the era of very high capital mobility, abuse of the global financial system makes national tax collection and law enforcement more difficult. Financial system abuse, financial crime, and money laundering may also distort the allocation of resources and the distribution of wealth and can be costly to detect and eradicate. A common theme in research is that if crime, underground activity and the associated money laundering take place on a sufficiently large scale, then macroeconomic policymakers must take them into account.

AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE

The traditional and ancient society was devoid of any monetary instruments and the entire exchange of goods and merchandise was managed by the barter system. The use of monetary instruments as a unit of exchange replaced the barter system and money in various denominations was used as the sole purchasing power. The modern contemporary era has replaced these traditional monetary instruments from a paper and metal based currency to plastic money in the form of credit cards, debit cards, etc. This has resulted in the increasing
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use of ATM all over the world. The use of ATM is not only safe but is also convenient. This safety and convenience, unfortunately, has an evil side as well that do not originate from the use of plastic money rather by the misuse of the same. This evil side is reflected in the form of ATM FRAUDS that is a global problem. The use of plastic money is increasing day by day for payment of shopping bills, electricity bills, school fees, phone bills, insurance premium, travelling bills and even petrol bills. The convenience and safety that credit cards carry with its use has been instrumental in increasing both credit card volumes and usage. This growth is not only in positive use of the same but as well as the negative use of the same. The world at large is struggling to increase the convenience and safety on the one hand and to reduce it misuse on the other.

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WAYS TO CARD FRAUDS

Some of the popular techniques used to carry out ATM crime are:
1. Through Card Jamming ATMs card reader is tampered with in order to trap a

customers card. Later on the criminal removes the card. 2. Card Skimming, is the illegal way of stealing the cards security information from the cards magnetic stripe. 3. Card Swapping, through this customers card is swapped for another card without the knowledge of cardholder. 4. Website Spoofing, here a new fictitious site is made which looks authentic to the user and customers are asked to give their card number. PIN and other information, which are used to reproduce the card for use at an ATM. 5. Physical Attack. ATM machine is physical attacked for removing the cash.

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HOW TO USE CASH MACHINE

Be aware of others around you. If someone close by the cash machine is behaving suspiciously or makes you feel uncomfortable, choose another .Make sure you check the machine before you use it for any signs of tampering. Examine the machine for stick on boxes, stick on card entry slots etc. If you find it difficult to get your card into the slot, do not use it, go to another machine.

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there is anything unusual about the cash machine report it to the bank and police or the owner of the premises immediately. Under no circumstances should members of the public attempt to remove a device as its possible the offender may be nearby.

HOW TO USE A CASH MACHINE

1. Give other users space to enter their personal identity number (PIN) in private. 2. Be aware of your surroundings. If someone is crowding or watching you, cancel the transaction and go to another machine. Take your card with you. 3. Do not accept help from "well meaning" strangers and never allow yourself to be distracted. 4. Stand close to the cash machine and always shield the keypad to avoid anyone seeing you enter your PIN.

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What Precaution Should Be Taken While Leaving Cash Machine

Once you have completed a transaction, discreetly put your money and card away before leaving the cash machine. If you lose your card in a cash machine, cancel the card immediately with the card issuers 24-hour emergency line, which can be found on your last bank statement. Do not assume that your bank automatically knows that the machine has withheld your card. Again, beware of help offered by "well meaning strangers". Dispose of your cash machine receipt, mini-statement or balance enquiry slip with care. Tear up or preferably shred these items before discarding them.

Card Fraud Also Happens In The Home:

Cardholders should also be warned of the risks of verifying bank details at home in unsolicited telephone conversations. Always call the person back using the advertised customer telephone number, not the telephone number they may give you. 1. Do Not Click On Hyperlinks Sent To You By Email Asking You To

Confirm Your Bank Details Online:

Hyperlinks are links to web pages that have been sent to you by email and may open a dummy website designed to steal your personal details. Phone your bank instead on their main customer number or access your account using the bank's main website address. Use good antivirus and firewall protection.

NEVER Write Down Your Pin:

People make life very easy for pickpockets if they write down their PIN and keep it in their purse or wallet. Do not write down your PIN. If you have been given a number that you find difficult to remember, take your card along to a cash machine and change the number to one that you will be able to remember without writing it down.

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PREVENTION FOR ATM CARDS

Most ATM frauds happen due to the negligence of customers in using, and more importantly, negligence of banks in educating their customers about the matters that should be taken care of while at an ATM. The number of ATM frauds in India is more in regard to negligence of the Personal Identification Number (PIN), than by sophisticated crimes like skimming. Banks need to develop a fraud policy the policy should be written and distributed to all employees, borrowers and depositors. The most important aspect for reducing ATM related fraud is to educate the customer. Here is a compiled list of guidelines to help your customer from being an ATM fraud victim: 1. Look for suspicious attachments. Criminals often capture information through ATM skimming using devices that steal magnetic strip information. At a glance, the skimmer looks just like a regular ATM slot, but its an attachment that captures ATM card numbers. To spot one, the attachment slightly protrudes from the machine and may not be parallel with the inherent grooves. Sometimes, the equipment will even cut off the printed labels on the ATM. The skimmer will not obtain PIN numbers, however. To get that, fraudsters place hidden cameras facing the ATM screen. Theres also the helpful bystander (the criminal) who may be standing by to kindly inform you the machine has had problems and offer to help. If you do not feel safe at any time, press the ATM cancel button, remove your card and leave the area immediately.
2. Minimize your time at the ATM. The more time you spend at the ATM, the more

vulnerable you are. If you need to update your records after a transaction, one is advised do it at home or office, but not while at the ATM. Even when depositing a cheque at the ATM, on should not make/sign the cheque at the ATM. After the transaction, if you think you are being followed, go to an area with a lot of people and call the police.
3. Make smart deposits. Some ATMs allow you to directly deposit checks and cash into

your accounts without stuffing envelopes. As for the envelope-based deposits, make sure they go through if it gets jammed and it doesnt fully go into the machine, the next

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person can walk up and take it out. After having made the ATM deposit, compare your records with the account statements or online banking records.

INDIAN SCENARIO
In India, where total number of installed ATMs base is far less than many developed countries. ATM-related frauds are very less. But they could increase as more and more ATMs will penetrate in the country, the bank should create awareness among customers about the cardrelated frauds to reduce the number of frauds in future. In India, Indian Banks Association (IBA) can take lead to kick started. The ATM fraud is not the sole problem of banks alone. It is a big threat and it requires a coordinated and cooperative action on the part of the bank, customers and the law enforcement machinery. The ATM frauds not only cause financial loss to banks but they also undermine customers confidence in the use of ATMs. This would deter a greater use of ATM for monetary transactions. It is therefore in the interest of banks to prevent ATM frauds. There is thus a need to take precautionary and insurance measures that give greater protection to the ATMs, particularly those located in less secure areas. The nature and the extent of precautionary measures to be adopted will, however, depend upon the requirements of the respective banks.

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WHAT IS FINANCIAL CRIMEA SURVEY OF CONCEPTS

There is no single, broadly accepted understanding of the meaning of the term financial crime. Rather, the term has been used to describe a number of different concepts of varying levels of specificity. At its absolute broadest, the term has occasionally been used to refer to any type of illegal activity that result in a pecuniary loss. This would include violent crimes against the person or property such as armed robbery or vandalism. At its next broadest, the term has often been used to refer only to non-violent crimes that result in a pecuniary loss. This would include crimes where a financial loss was an unintended consequence of the perpetrators actions, or where there was no intent by the perpetrator to realize a financial gain for himself or a related party (e.g. when a perpetrator hacks into a banks computer and either accidentally or intentionally deletes an unrelated depositors account records.) Also, the term has occasionally been used slightly more narrowly to refer only to instances where the perpetrator intends to benefit from the crime. Either way, criminal fraud (i.e. the act of illegally deceiving or misrepresenting information so as to gain something of value) for personal benefit is undoubtedly the most common. The term has been used in a more narrow sense to refer only to those instances where a nonviolent crime resulting in a pecuniary loss crime also involves a financial institution. Financial institutions can play one of three roles:

(i) Perpetrator, (ii) Victim, or (iii)Knowing or unknowing instrumentality of crime. Of these, the most common are probably when the financial institution is a victim of fraud and when it is used as an instrumentality for money laundering.

Some of the more common examples of the former include credit card fraud, check fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, pension fund fraud, and securities and investment fraud.

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With the ongoing development and increasing sophistication of commercial and financial enterprises, coupled with the consequences of globalization, the range and diversity of financial crime is likely to increase.

The prevention of and fight against organised crime in the financial sector

PREVENTION

Because of the nature of Cyber money laundering, no country can effectively deal with it in isolation. Cyber money laundering has to be dealt with at organizational [Bank or Financial Institution], national and international levels.

This Communication aims to identify those areas where new initiatives may be needed to strengthen the fight against organised financial crime. This covers a range of illegal activities, including money laundering, financial fraud and counterfeiting of the Euro when committed by criminal organisations.

Organised financial crime undermines legitimate economic actors and strengthens the shadow economy, thus diminishing economic growth and public resources.

The fight against organised financial crime is important since reducing such crime has a broader impact on the fight against organised crime generally. Given that money is the lifeblood of organised crime, removing access by organised crime groups to money is bound to erode their power base

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CASE STUDY INDIA'S FIRST ATM CARD FRAUD

The Chennai City Police have busted an international gang involved in cyber crime, with the arrest of Deepak Prem Manwani (22), who was caught red-handed while breaking into an ATM in the city in June last, it is reliably learnt. The dimensions of the city cops' achievement can be gauged from the fact that they have netted a man who is on the wanted list of the formidable FBI of the United States. At the time of his detention, he had with him Rs 7.5 lakh knocked off from two ATMs in T Nagar and Abiramipuram in the city. Prior to that, he had walked away with Rs 50,000 from an ATM in Mumbai. While investigating Manwani's case, the police stumbled upon a cyber crime involving scores of persons across the globe. Manwani is an MBA drop-out from a Pune college and served as a marketing executive in a Chennai-based firm for some time. Interestingly, his audacious crime career started in an Internet cafe. While browsing the Net one day, he got attracted to a site which offered him assistance in breaking into the ATMs. His contacts, sitting somewhere in Europe, were ready to give him credit card numbers of a few American banks for $5 per card. The site also offered the magnetic codes of those cards, but charged $200 per code. The operators of the site had devised a fascinating idea to get the personal identification number (PIN) of the card users. They floated a new site which resembled that of a reputed telecom companies. That company has millions of subscribers. The fake site offered the visitors to return $11.75 per head which, the site promoters said, had been collected in excess by mistake from
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them. Believing that it was a genuine offer from the telecom company in question, several lakh subscribers logged on to the site to get back that little money, but in the process parted with their PINs. Armed with all requisite data to hack the bank ATMs, the gang started its systematic looting. Apparently, Manwani and many others of his ilk entered into a deal with the gang behind the site and could purchase any amount of data, of course on certain terms, or simply enter into a deal on a booty-sharing basis. Meanwhile, Manwani also managed to generate 30 plastic cards that contained necessary data to enable him to break into ATMS. He was so enterprising that he was able to sell away a few such cards to his contacts in Mumbai. The police are on the lookout for those persons too. On receipt of large-scale complaints from the billed credit card users and banks in the United States, the FBI started an investigation into the affair and also alerted the CBI in New Delhi that the international gang had developed some links in India too. Manwani has since been enlarged on bail after interrogation by the CBI. But the city police believe that this is the beginning of the end of a major cyber crime.

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GENERAL TIPS ON AVOIDING POSSIBLE INTERNET FRAUD SCHEMES

1. Don't Judge by Initial Appearances It may seem obvious, but consumers need to remember that just because something appears on the Internet - no matter how impressive or professional the Web site looks - doesn't mean it's true. The ready availability of software that allows anyone, at minimal cost, to set up a professional-looking Web site means that criminals can make their Web sites look as impressive as those of legitimate e-commerce merchants.

2. Be Careful About Giving Out Valuable Personal Data Online If you see e-mail messages from someone you don't know that ask you for personal data such as your Social Security number, credit-card number, or password - don't just send the data without knowing more about who's asking. Criminals have been known to send messages in which they pretend to be (for example) a systems administrator or Internet service provider representative in order to persuade people online that they should disclose valuable personal data. 3. Be Especially Careful About Online Communications with Someone Who Conceals His True Identity If someone sends you an e-mail in which he refuses to disclose his full identity, or uses an e-mail header that has no useful identifying data (e.g., "[email protected]"), that may be an indication that the person doesn't want to leave any information that could allow you to contact them later if you have a dispute over undelivered goods for which you paid. As a result, you should be highly wary about relying on advice that such people give you if they are trying to persuade you to entrust your money to them.

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4. Watch Out for "Advance-Fee" Demands In general, you need to look carefully at any online seller of goods or services who wants you to send checks or money orders immediately to a post office box; before you receive the goods or services you've been promised. Legitimate startup "dot.com" companies, of course, may not have the brand-name recognition of long-established companies, and still be fully capable of delivering what you need at a fair price. Even so, using the Internet to research online companies that aren't known to you is a reasonable step to take before you decide to entrust a significant amount of money to such companies. 5. SUGGESTIONS ON CYBER MONEY LAUNDERING Because of the nature of Cyber money laundering, no country can effectively deal with it in isolation. Cyber money laundering has to be dealt with at organizational [Bank or Financial Institution], national. AT ORGANIZATIONAL [BANK] LEVEL The banking and other financial organizations can reduce the quantum of money laundering by following the guidelines issued by central banks of respective countries in letter and spirit. The old principle of Knowing the customer well will help a great deal. AT NATIONAL LEVEL Some countries liken UK have taken proactive steps to control this crime, which could be cumulated by others. In UK, deposit taking institutions (including banks) are expected to report suspicious transactions to the law enforcement authorities.

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ARTICLE ON CYBER CRIMES IN FINANCIAL SECTOR

Cyber Crime in the financial sector

W RITTEN BY RAOUL CHIESA

A few months ago, I encountered in an article by Ian Rowan at Switched.com reporting the news of a computer consultant that siphoned $1M USD from a Utah Bank. Also Memento security commented the article on April 27th explaining how An IT contractor hired to fix some bugs in a recent computer upgrade used his system access to make fraudulent electronic transfers into accounts under his control. He allegedly used the funds to remodel his home, pay off his two car notes, and cover a few mortgage payments. The fraud came to light when his business partner reported the suspicious transactions. We are talking about the same old story that plays over, again and again. Infosec s1 portals are totally filled by this kind of news, ranging from the highly orchestrated organized-crime actions up to the one-man crime approach. Lets take in consideration a couple of cases, one very recent and the other rather old. This latter one is the LGT case, also known as The Lichtenstein Tax Affair. Mr. Kieber, an employee at LGT Bank, allegedly stole customers financial data and sold them to an Intelligence Agency. The peculiar aspect here is that Mr. Kieber was already sought by an international warrant issued by Spain back in 1997 for running a 600.000 CHF check-fraud. A bank, where privacy is the fundamental value to be assured to its customers shouldnt have hired a man with that kind of background in the first place. We may also discuss IT procedures and checks, as well as Counter-Fraud and Privacy security policies and rules used by the violated institution. But thats not the real point.

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Payment Gateway(2), RBS World Pay, was hacked. The attackers hacked into the credit cards (CC) database and, apparently, were able to own it completely. No one noticed the break-in and nothing happened, until a few months later. On January 9th, 2009, a 24-hour withdraw operation was run among three continents (USA, Asia, Europe). One hundred mules withdrew $9 million USD in a 24-hour timeframe, leaving no traces behind, except in some cases, where pictures were shot from the ATMs themselves. . More than 130 ATMs in 49 cities (from Moscow to Atlanta, to get the idea) were affected by the attacks. Curious to say, a nearly identical attack happened in 2007, when I Wire (a payment card company) encountered losses of $5 million USD. Obviously, if a world-wide known bank, a payment gateway and a payment card company have all been somehow violated, this means that no one can be totally secure: nothing is 100% secure. Nevertheless, I would like to bring the readers attention towards other points and thoughts, far from the IT Securitys standard approaches. These kinds of crimes will continue, they will never stop. They will increase in number daily, reaching unimaginable amounts of money. Cybercrime, intended as all the various sorts of e-crimes, is the most profitable criminal activity ever seen, much more than international drug dealing and human trafficking. Cyber crime usually involves a few risks, and typically doesnt require the authors to show up and physically expose themselves. Also, the de-facto international approach and MO (Modus Operandi) of these crimes complicates the law enforcement agencies investigations, information exchange, dialogues and collaboration, while the laws and the international agreements among different legislation systems would not always work out, especially in some countries. These countries, obviously, are among those ones preferred by e-criminals. Just to give the idea, the 2007 financial turnover for RBN (Russian Business Network), one of the most important and distributed criminal organizations in the Internet area, was more than $2 Billion USD. RBN has been credited for creating nearly half of 2007s phishing incidents worldwide, being also specialized in the distribution of malicious codes, hosting malicious Web sites, developing and selling specialized malware and 0-day exploits. This means money, a lot of it too.

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shocked, I get angry. Todays world is already filled with bad guys, meaning those people that belong to the well-known criminal world. It has always been like this, since the very ancient past. Then, particularly since the 80s, we started learning about a new type of criminals, involved in the so-called white-collar crimes. They were a few, highly specialized people, that decided to bid over their own life, and try to get the big one to fix all the rest of their lives. Today the situation is changing, again. We are experiencing white-collar crimes linked with organized crime. Every day we learn about somebody that has been arrested for e-crime actions: young people, students, consultants, hackers, and criminals. I think those are just the tip of the iceberg. The key difference that apparently no one has realized yet is another one: it doesnt matter whether the bad guy is the IT consultant rather than an anonymous teenager.

Today many more people know about IT security and hacking. Resources are available in a really easy and accessible way. The Internet is everywhere, allowing attacks to spread worldwide. People should realize that just like Social Networks exist thanks to the Internet, similarly, we also have a kind of Criminal Network(s) thanks to the Internet. Its a process that evolved along the years, and this is the current scenario. There is close to nothing we can do against it, but we can carry on our efforts in raising awareness, training and education. Every new technology opens the doors to new criminal approaches. This should be our first thought whenever using a new technology, along with all the good things and enhancements the technology itself will surely give us.

RECENT TRENDS
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 In February 2009, a group of criminals used counterfeit ATM cards to steal $9 million

from 130 ATMs in 49 cities around the world all within a time period of 30 minutes.

June 4, 2009, 10:00 AM IDG News Service Cybercriminals are improving a malicious software program that can be installed on ATMs running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system that records sensitive card details, according to security vendor Trustwave. The malware has been found on ATMs in Eastern European countries, according to a Trustwave report. The malware records the magnetic stripe information on the back of a card as well as the PIN (Personal Identification Number), which would potentially allow criminals to clone the card in order to withdraw cash. The collected card data, which is encrypted using the DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm, can be printed out by the ATM's receipt printer, Trustwave wrote. The malware is controlled via a GUI that is displayed when a so-called "trigger card" is inserted into the machine by a criminal. The trigger card causes a small window to appear that gives its controller 10 seconds to pick one of 10 command options using the ATM's keypad. "The malware contains advanced management functionality allowing the attacker to fully control the compromised ATM through a customized user interface built into the malware," Trustwave wrote. A criminal can then view the number of transactions, print card data, reboot the machine and even uninstall the malware. Another menu option appears to allow the ejection of an ATM's cash cassette. Trustwave has collected multiple versions of the malware. The company believes that the particular one it analyzed is "a relatively early version of the malware and that subsequent versions have seen significant additions to its functionality." The company advised banks to scan their ATMs to see if they're infected. IDG News Service

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CONCLUSION
Lastly I conclude by saying that Thieves are not born, but made out of opportunities. This quote exactly reflects the present environment related to technology, where it is changing very fast. By the time regulators come up with preventive measures to protect customers from innovative frauds, either the environment itself changes or new technology emerges. This helps criminals to find new areas to commit the fraud. Computer forensics has developed as an indispensable tool for law enforcement. But in the digital world, as in the physical world the goals of law enforcement are balanced with the goals of maintaining personal liberty and privacy. Jurisdiction over cyber crimes should be standardized around the globe to make swift action possible against terrorist whose activities are endearing security worldwide. The National institute of justice, technical working group digital evidence are some of the key organization involved in research. The ATM fraud is not the sole problem of banks alone. It is a big threat and it requires a coordinated and cooperative action on the part of the bank, customers and the law enforcement machinery. The ATM frauds not only cause financial loss to banks but they also undermine customers' confidence in the use of ATMs. This would deter a greater use of ATM for monetary transactions. It is therefore in the interest of banks to prevent ATM frauds. There is thus a need to take precautionary and insurance measures that give greater "protection" to the ATMs, particularly those located in less secure areas. The nature and extent of precautionary measures to be adopted will, however, depend upon the requirements of the respective banks. Internet Banking Fraud is a fraud or theft committed using online technology to illegally remove money from a bank account and/or transfer money to an account in a different bank. Internet Banking Fraud is a form of identity theft and is usually made possible through techniques such as phishing. Credit card fraud can be committed using a credit card or any similar payment mechanism as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction. The purpose may be to obtain goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account. Cyber space and cyber

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payment methods are being abused by money launderers for converting their dirty money into legal money. For carrying out their activities launderers need banking system. Internet, online banking facilitates speedy financial transactions in relative anonymity and this is being exploited by the cyber money launderers. Traditional systems like credit cards had some security features built into them to prevent such crime but issue of e-money by unregulated institutions may have none. Preventing cyber money laundering is an uphill task which needs to be tackled at different levels. This has to be fought on three planes, first by banks/ financial institutions, second by nation states and finally through international efforts. The regulatory framework must also take into account all the related issues like development of e-money, right to privacy of individual. International law and international co-operation will go a long way in this regard. Capacity of human mind is unfathomable. It is not possible to eliminate cyber crime from the cyber space. It is quite possible to check them. History is the witness that no legislation has succeeded in totally eliminating crime from the globe. The only possible step is to make people aware of their rights and duties (to report crime as a collective duty towards the society) and further making the application of the laws more stringent to check crime. Undoubtedly the Act is a historical step in the cyber world. Further I all together do not deny that there is a need to bring changes in the Information Technology Act to make it more effective to combat cyber crime. Capacity of human mind is unfathomable. It is not possible to eliminate cyber crime from the cyber space. It is quite possible to check them. History is the witness that no legislation has succeeded in totally eliminating crime from the globe. The only possible step is to make people aware of their rights and duties (to report crime as a collective duty towards the society) and further making the application of the laws more stringent to check crime. Undoubtedly the Act is a historical step in the cyber world. Further I all together do not deny that there is a need to bring changes in the Information Technology Act to make it more effective to combat cyber crime. And prove to be counter-productive.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
WEBSITE: www.cybercellmumbai.com www.agapeinc.in www.britannica.com

SEARCH ENGINE: www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.wikipedia.com

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