Current and Ongoing Internet Crime Trends and Techniques. Preventive and Legislation Measures in Romania.

• Author: Florin Postolache, Mihaela Postolache
• Position: Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Law - Danubius University of Galati
• Pages: 35-43

Legal Sciences

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Current and Ongoing Internet Crime Tendencies and Techniques.

Preventive Legislation Measures in Romania

Florin Postolache

1

, Mihaela Postolache

2

1

Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Law, florinpostolache@univ-danubius.ro

2

Danubius University of Galati, mihaelapostolache@univ-danubius.ro

Abstract: Internet crime techniques that p ilfer from victims millions each year continue to plague the Internet

through a range of methods. Trends and techniques identified by many organizations along with its

description are followed by p reventative measures that will support you in being informed prior to entering

into dealings and transactions over the Internet. Techniques as Auction Fraud, Counterfeit Cashier's Check,

Credit Card Fraud, Debt Elimination, P arcel Courier Email Scheme, Employment/Busi ness Opportunities,

Escrow Services Fraud, Identity Theft, Internet Extortion, Investment Fraud, Lotter ies, Nigerian Letter or

"419", Phishing/Spoofing, Ponzi/Pyramid, Reshipping, Spam, Third Party Recei ver of Funds are clarified in

this paper and, also the internet crime prevention and legislative measures are treated, too.

Keywords: internet crime; e-fraud techniques.

1. Introduction

The Internet is so good, but in some situations so blamed! The various criminal means keeps affecting

the internet, making huge loses around millions of euro annually. The current and future trends in

stopping the scourge of crime on internet have materialized and in Romania there have been

attempting to adapt the legislation and cooperation with other countries. Thus, lately our country has

known an increase of the informatics criminality, which brought us a global well-known “brand”, by

incorporating the country’s name in labelling the method. In this paper we analyze the most common

methods and criminal schemes but also ways to prevent them.

Methods and Means of Preventing Computing Criminality

The auction fraud: involves deceiving one of the parties after a bid made on a specialized site in

selling or buying products through auction. In general, there are posted ads of selling products, at very

attractive prices. After the auction is made and the product is acquired virtually, the product is paid

and often enough the transaction stops here and the buyer does not receive anything. This method is

associated to our country and is called the “Romanian auction fraud”. Sometimes the seller directs the

victim towards an escrow service that is compromised and/or fake, and that, in the most cases, belongs

to the seller. Once the money is electronically transferred, the connection is interrupted and the seller

is unreachable.