Cybercrime

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Comment by Bijoy Mitra on October 1, 2009 at 8:52am

Dear All ,
I am delighted to be part of this group. It is interesting to share our knowledge and experience on cyber crime and then to discuss in order to achieve our harmonized view in forthcoming Sharm meeting of IGF.Warm Regard and Greetings_Bijoy Mitra

Comment by Ljubisa Gavrilovic on September 30, 2009 at 11:54am

Cyber Crime or Cyber Security - identity theft is officially crime in many countries. But what with digital identity theft?

While internet was anonymous it was taken lightly with a frown. Now that we have ID internet where our digital representation is becoming a part of our real identity we are facing new challenges.

What if your facebook account has been re-captured by someone else? What if your twiteer account is used by someone else. Learn about new technology and its problems - it is fresh case of digital identity theft.

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Joy Bryant Impersonator Stalks Hip Hop Legends Mary J. Blige and Estelle on Twitter

Contributor Lauren Goodman caught up with the actress backstage at Isaac Mizrahi. Bryant asked if she could snap a picture of her recently published blingy wrist brace. It was surely a disorienting reversal, having her photo snapped by a celeb; so she asked the natural question, "Are you going to Tweet this?" Bryant took a deep sigh, replied in the negative, and shared this previously unpublished saga about the social networking platform.

What happened?

JB: I had to shut down an imposter on Twitter. The imposter was reaching out to celebrities, like Mary J. Blige, pretending to be me, trying to get their contact info…

What? Rewind.

JB: A friend of mine was with the singer Estelle when she gets a tweet from "me"—her Tweet name was iamjoybryant. "Hey, great to see you the other night. Sorry we didn't get to hang out. Send me your phone number, love to get together." So, Estelle says to my friend, "Aren't you friends with Joy Bryant? I have never met her in my life, and she just sent me this." So, he called me.

No!

JB: Yes, and I started to get all these other calls, that iamjoybryant was contacting other famous people, saying we hung out, trying to get their info.

So, all these famous people thought you were a spazz…and crazy?

JB: Yeah. It was a nightmare. And they make it really hard to shut someone down on Twitter. Like almost impossible.

So what did you do?

JB: Some friends of mine, who know the owners, or people who run Twitter, got involved and contacted them. My lawyer and I had to fill-out all this paperwork, saying that I was really me, and then, I had to start a Twitter account in my name.

To block the name Joy Bryant from future imposters?

JB: Exactly. But it's a bummer because I never wanted to be on Twitter.

So who was this imposter?

JB: I have no idea.

So that's the story. Omg! What will stop these celeb-impostering Twits? The popular celebrity platform offers unprecedented access to A-list stars—Ashton, Demi, Chris Martin, not Joy Bryant, however—whom sometimes, just want to network with each other. But how do famous people (and mere mortals) protect themselves from fauxs? Especially their faux-selves?

We smell legal battles, galore."

Original article avaliable for members of social network "A Small World" http://asmallworld.net

Comment by Rudi Vansnick on August 20, 2009 at 9:22am

Having been in the e-Crime panel during the 34th ICANN meetings in Mexico, I'm pleased to participate in this group. In Belgium, we are running an Internet Ombudsman for 4 years now and we discovered the growth of criminality on the web. One of the aspects I'm now working on in Belgium is the deployment of a new law prohibiting illegal online gambling in Belgium. The law has been voted recently, we now start writing the procedures for execution.
Hope we will have the opportunity to discuss several aspects of eCrime in this group very soon, even aside the IGF.

Comment by Hountomey Jean-Robert on July 16, 2009 at 1:35am

so happy to discover this group

Comment by AMINOU NDALA on July 9, 2009 at 12:56pm

Dear All

I am happy to be part of this group. It will be interesting to learn and share experiences with you.