Actually, I am not very familiar with the history of the cybercrimes in Singapore; therefore, I would like to talk a bit about what I know about cybercrimes in my country.
In my opinion Russia is still stuck in the Stone Age. What I mean is that not all parts of my "mighty" country are developed, in my opinion, there some places in Russia where people do not know what is Internet and that thing like this can exist. Unbelievable, ye right I know.
I am not talking about central part of Russia here, like Moscow, where people are so selfish that they do not want to think that other "Russian people" can exist except them.... So moving onto my place, somewhere in the Far East where Internet came around year 2000 people still do not know about such thing like WI-FI and high speed Internet) Sounds very sad for me but not for you.
So what I am trying to say here, is that only minority of people, the most brilliant, know not only how to use Internet, but also, how to get other people’s money with the help of the Internet. As you know from our class this week, Mr. Choy was talking about all different kinds of cybercrimes. So this is my story....
Once upon a time there lived a very smart and up-to-date guy, who was moving in one step with the booming technology. In the 98, he got his first computer and Internet access, being only 12 years old he got very interested in his new 'toy'. And he spend sooo much time with it, playing and trying to understand how all the programs work that one day he simply made a new computer from the two old ones...
As you know when you are so young you do not listen to elder people trying to do everything yourself, and in my place people are always looking for the easy ways to get money. So by that time our friend was about 14 years old, and when he came across on-line shopping some crazy idea struck his head..... "what if??" he thought.
One day he gathered two other his friends, by the way, who were very familiar with the computers, and 3 of them, started to think how to break in somebody’s computer and steal the credit card information so that the opportunity of on-line shopping will be opened before them.
Somehow, sadly, but this is another story, they stole the credit card number and the particulars of its holder (what an ass that guy should be) and went to shop on-line.
But about one week later, can you imagine the amazement of our friend’s parents when, some important person called them and informed that the newest computer and hundreds of other very expensive gadgets were bought on-line and the delivery address was their home address.
(Haha our poor genius did not expect such a turn)
Than the person informed the parents that the credit card that was used to pay the bill was stolen…. Ooooops so what does this mean?
Honestly, it is a real life example and the smart guy in my step-brother)
SO here I gave you a classical example of phishing. Where the credit card number was stolen and used for on-line shopping.
