1. How can people best protect themselves against cybercrime?

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Simone, a final year student at Colegio University, owes $ 15,000 in tuition fees. She is not in a position to pay at the moment as she is unemployed. Colegio is threatening to prevent her from graduating. To obtain funds to pay the debt, Simone starts a “Go-Fund-me page, asking for financial help for her mother who is supposedly dying from cancer. In reality, her mother has just won the fitness woman of the year award on the island.

Do you consider this a crime? If so, which one?

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Cybercrime costs individual consumers millions of dollars a year and it costs businesses including banks and credit card companies a lot more. Paradoxically, when cyber criminals are caught and convicted, they are given jail time, but hardly ever pay restitution for their crimes.

Discuss:

1. How can people best protect themselves against cybercrime?

2. If you were a legislator, what measures would you take to reduce the incidence of cybercrime?

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