Abstract
The present age of technological advances has extended the reach of crimes into the Internet. Nevertheless, while the Internet may have led to the emergence of wholly new crimes, it has mostly brought about new ways of committing preexisting crimes. (Garner, 2000) For example, although it is often called a 21st century phenomenon, (Hoar, 2001) cyberspace identity theft is, in fact, not a new type of crime. (United Nations, Handbook on Identity Related Crime, 2011)Long before the emergence of the Internet, identity thieves stole people’s identities through dumpster diving by searching for personal identifying information such as social security and bank account numbers in the trash left outside people’s homes. The identity thief uses information relating to the identity of another person’s such as name, address, telephone number, mother’s maiden name, social security number, social insurance number, health card number, bank account information, driver’s license number and date of birth. It is stealing someone’s identity information to commit theft, fraud or other crimes. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s3p595
Highlights
The advent of the Internet has changed trend dramatically by introducing a new variant called cyberspace identity theft. (OECD Policy Guidance on Online Identity Theft, 2008) This is a technology-based form of identity theft, which is perpetrated through the medium of the Internet
One of the objectives of this paper is to examine the meaning of cyberspace identity theft from a global perspective
The analysis demonstrates that it is quite a challenging task to detect some types of cyberspace identity theft, especially synthetic identity theft and identity cloning and concealment
Summary
The advent of the Internet has changed trend dramatically by introducing a new variant called cyberspace identity theft. (OECD Policy Guidance on Online Identity Theft, 2008) This is a technology-based form of identity theft, which is perpetrated through the medium of the Internet. (OECD Policy Guidance on Online Identity Theft, 2008) This is a technology-based form of identity theft, which is perpetrated through the medium of the Internet It involves stealing someone’s personal information such as name, date of birth, address, social security number, social insurance number, health card number, bank account information, driver’s licence number, and the like, for the purposes of committing a theft, fraud or other crimes. One of the objectives of this paper is to examine the meaning of cyberspace identity theft from a global perspective It aims to advance an acceptable definition of cyberspace identity theft (in addition to other related concepts) such that it would be easy to identify the crime, facilitate its investigation, as well as prosecution.
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