Knowledge of Cybercrime among Elderly
Nabat Arfi, Shalini Agarwal · 2013
Cybercrime is a kind of crime that happens in cyberspace, that is, happens in the world of computer and the Internet. Although many people have a limited knowledge of cybercrime, this kind of crime has the serious potential for severe impact on our lives and society, because our society is becoming an information society, full of information exchange happening in cyberspace. There studies indicating cybercrime in present scenario, cybercrime and their laws and cybercrime during adolescent. As the Internet, mobile phones, and other computer technologies have flourished, criminals have found ways to use them for old-fashioned goals such as theft, fraud, intimidation, and harassment that’s why cybercrime is becoming even more serious. Elderly is that vulnerable group who has been deprieved from any information regarding latest technologies and innovation especially in the world of computers and internet . The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge of cybercrime among elderly.