Section 6 Flashcards
What is the most common form of Cybercrime?
Fraud
What percentage of people in 25 countries shop online at least monthly?
54%
What percentage of Americans shop online at least monthly?
66% or 2/3
What percentage of victims report cyber fraud to police?
15%
E-mails, texts, instant messing, social media, and online retail sites are all places where what takes place?
Cyber fraud
What is the most famous email fraud?
419 scam
You get the email, and it says something like I need help getting money out of my country and into your country if you help, ill give you a certain percent. What scam is this?
419 Scam
419 Scam got it’s name from what?
Nigeria Prince Scam. It was section 419 of their code that covers this crime
What is it when you create a fake website that is spoofing some legitimate website.
Phishing
Targeting a certain small specific subset of people, Allows you to do a more focused thing.
Spear Phishing
Universities making an email look like it is coming form the president when it is really from a scammer. This is an example of what?
Spear Phishing
One Specific Person.
Whaling
Specifically, signed phishing attack
Whaling
Go around by email a lot and basically they promise you money working from home and a lot of times you contact them and it is fake. This is known as what?
Work at home scams
People tell you if you go and buy a product and ship it somewhere, they will send your money for it. Sometimes a trick to get you to send them the product and they never pay you or it is money laundering, and they pay you with fake funds and sell it somewhere else to collect legitimate money. This is known as what?
Secret Shopper Scams