Ways of committing information technology crimes in the banking system of Ukraine
Date: October 15, 2003Source: Computer Crime Research Center
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... day, he phoned up a bank operator and told about an erroneous reduction of his account by a huge sum on the part of the bank. After checking the Oracle database, the bank officials revealed their “mistake”: indication of “- $220200” on his account. They considered it to be resulted from the automated system malfunction and renewed his account by this sum [6].
The above material shows that every year the ways of committing e-crimes are changed due to the complexity of computer technique, variety and accumulation of information operations, most of which reflect the movement of funds, development of technique and so on.
A crime is easier to prevent than expose. It is an axiom. The international experience in fighting crimes shows that the most effective is an active use of various preventive ways on the part of law enforcement agencies. They include: informing people about law enforcement body activities and penalties for committed crimes. It is especially important to prevent perpetrating offenses in the sphere of high technologies because most of hacking teenagers have an illusion of their own impunity.
Materials published in mass media should not give rise to unnecessary hullabaloo around this problem but on the contrary, they should be of an educational character: inform about court practice and explain what crimes criminals are punished for.
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5. According to the criminal case materials
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