Cyber Crime Examples

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Recent examples of cyber crime & eCommerce fraud

related investigations in India



Cyber Crime statistics in India

* taken from National Crime Records Bureau website

Incidence Of Cases Registered Under Cyber Crimes

IT Act IPC

Year 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007

217 339India 179 142 302 311

Person Arrested Under IT Act By Age Group During 2007 (2006)

Age

Group

<18 18-30 30-45 45-60 > 60 Total

IT IPC IT IPC IT IPC IT IPC IT IPC IT IPC

India 2 4 97 126 46 237 9 61 0 1 154 429



Incidence Of Cases Registered And Number Of Persons Arrested Under Cyber Crimes

IT Act during 2007 - All-IndiaS.No. Section

Crime Head Cases

registered

Persons

Arrested

A Offences under IT Act

1 65 Tampering with computer source documents 11 2

2 Hacking computer systems

2a 66(1) Loss/damage to computer resource/utility 30 25

2b 66(2) Hacking 46 23

3 67 Obscene publication/transmission in electronic form 99 86

4 68 Failure of compliance/orders of Certifying Authority 2 1

5 69 Failure to assist to decoy the information in interception by Govt. Agency 2 0

6 70 Unauthorized access/attempt to access protected Computer System 4 0

7 71 Obtaining license or Digital Signatures my misrepresentation/suppression

of facts

11 11

8 73 Publishing false digital signature certificate 0 0

9 74 Fraud Digital Signature 3 3

10 72 Breach of Confidentiality 9 3TOTAL of A 217 154







Incidence Of Cases Registered And Number Of Persons Arrested Under Cyber Crimes

IPC during 2007 - All-India

S.No. Section Crime Head Cases

registered

Persons

Arrested

B Offences under IPC

1 193 False electronic evidence 0 0

2 204, 477 Destruction of electronic evidence 0 0

3 463,465,466,468,469,

471,474,476,477A

Forgery 217 264

4 405, 406, 408, 409 Criminal Breach of Trust 73 85

5 489 Tampering 5 8

6 489A to 489E Counterfeiting currency/stamps/property/marks 44 72

TOTAL OF B 339 429

GRAND TOTAL (A+B) 556 583



Cyberstalking

Facts:

One Mrs. Ritu Kohli complained to the police against the a person who was using her

identity to chat over the Internet at the website www.mirc.com, mostly in the Delhi

channel for four consecutive days.

Mrs. Kohli further complained that the person was chatting on the Net, using her nameand giving her address and was talking obscene language. The same person was also

deliberately giving her telephone number to other chatters encouraging them to call

Ritu Kohli at odd hours.

Consequently, Mrs Kohli received almost 40 calls in three days mostly at odd hours fromas far away as Kuwait, Cochin, Bombay and Ahmedabad. The said calls created havoc in

the personal life and mental peace of Ritu Kohli who decided to report the matter.

Investigation: By Delhi Police

the IP addresses were traced and the police investigated the entire matter and ultimatelyarrested Manish Kathuria on the said complaint. Manish apparently pleaded guilty and was

arrested.

Actions:

A case was registered under section 509, of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Nothing in IT Act.



Blackmailing

Facts:

A Dubai based NRI was lured by anonymous women on internet who after winning his

confidence and love started blackmailing him under the guise that the first women with

whom the NRI got befriended had committed suicide and police is investigating the caseand seeking NRI’s details. The accused also sent fake copies of the letters from CBI, High

Court of Calcutta, New York police and Punjab University etc. The NRI by that time had

paid about Rs. 1.25 crore to the accused.

Investigation: By Mumbai Police Thankfully, the NRI has saved all the emails which he has so far received from the

strangers he has been communicating with. The I.P. Address embedded in all e-mails

received by complainant reveals the origin of the emails. The man assuming these various

identities is a single person.

Actions:

Charges framed u/s 292, 389, 420, 465, 467, 468, 469, 471, 474 IPC read with Section 67

of IT Act.



Hacking – Gaining illegal access

Facts:

Two BPO employees gained illegal access to their company’s computer system

by hacking with the passwords. They conspired with son of a credit card holder

and illegally increased the credit limit of the card and changed the communicationaddress so that credit card statement never reaches the original card holder. The

credit card company was cheated about Rs. 7.2 laks.

Investigations: By Chennai police The computer system of the BPO company were examined along with the

computer logs showing the access to the computer systems by the accused. The

presence of accused was also verified with the attendance register.

Actions:

Charges framed u/s 120(B), 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC and Section 66 of IT Act.



Phishing

Facts:

The defendants were operating a placement agency involved in `head-hunting'

and recruitment. In order to obtain personal data which they could use for

head-hunting, the defendants composed and sent emails to third parties inNASSCOM's name.

Actions:

Injunction (Anton Piller Order) and Rs. 16 lakhs damages – Nothing in IT Act

Case Law:

National Association of Software and Service Companies vs. Ajay Sood &

Others, Decided by Delhi High Court in 2005



Obscenity – Hosting obscene profiles

Facts:

Some unknown person had created an email ID using the name of a lady and

had used this email ID to post messages on five Web pages describing her as a

call girl along with her contact numbers.

Investigation: By Chennai police

The IP address and log details were obtained from ISP which were traced to two

cyber cafes in Mumbai. Complainant revealed that she had refused a formercollege mate who had proposed to marry her. Police arrested this person and

examined his SIM card which contained complainant’s number and cyber café

owner also identified this man.

Actions:Charge Sheet was filed U/S 67 of IT Act 2000, 469 and 509 IPC – Accused is

sentenced for the offence to undergo RI for 2 years { State of Tamil Nadu Vs

Suhas Katti , CMM, Egmore, Chennai in 2004}.



Cyber Defamation

Facts:

A company’s employee started sending derogatory, defamatory and obscene

emails about company’s Managing Director. The emails were anonymous and

frequent and were sent to many company’s business associates to tarnish theimage and goodwill of the company.

Investigation:

The accused was identified by the company by the private computer expert.

Actions:

Delhi High Court granted an injunction and restrained the employee from

sending, publishing and transmitting emails which are defamatory or

derogatory to the plaintiffs { SMC Pneumatics (India) Private Limited v.

Jogesh Kwatra }.



Credit Card Frauds – Air Tickets

Facts:

More than 15000 credit cards were fraudulently used to book Air ticket throughthe Internet.

Total about Rs. 17 crore. The fraud had come to light after the of credit card holders approached the

Card Issuing Bank saying they had never booked a ticket. The airline hadcharged the amount to the bank, which in turn, had passed on the tab to its

customers. Investigation:

The gang had booked tickets online using credit card numbers obtained fromrestaurants, hotels, shopping malls and other retail outlets. The tickets were

booked from cyber cafes in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore.Actions:

Charges framed under IPC.



Data Theft

Facts:

24-year-old Nadeem Hamid Kashmiri employee of HSBC BPO allegedly

accessed personal information, security information and debit card information

of some customers and these details were passed on to the fraudsters whodiverted £233,000 (approx Rs. 2 crores) from the clients' accounts,.

Actions:A case has been registered under Sections 66 and 72 of the IT Act and 408,

468 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.

T i ith t d ( l C i ht



Tampering with computer source code (also a Copyright

Infringement)

Syed Asifuddin & Ors. v State of Andhra Pradesh & another - 2005 CrLJ 4314

(AP)

A big mobile services company launched a famous scheme wherein this company

was giving an expensive hand-set at a very low cost but with a lock-in period of 3years in which the mobile subscriber has to pay a fixed monthly rental and a

premium call charge to such mobile services company.

A special computer program / technology was used by this mobile services company

wherein the hand-set can only be used with this mobile services and not with other

mobile services.

Employees of a completing mobile services company lured the customers of the

above company to alter / tamper with the special (locking) computer program / technology so that the hand-set can be used with the competing mobile services.

Held:

Such tampering is an offence u/s 65 of IT Act as well as

Copyright infringement u/s 63 of Copyrights Act.



Indian ‘John Doe’ sued

John Doe explained:

In the United States, the name John Doe is used for a defendant or victim in a

legal example or for a person whose identity is unknown or is intended to be

anonymous.

Facts:

Integrix (India) Pvt. Ltd received offending emails from this anonymous email

ID ([email protected]), which it said were defamatory and damagingto the company and its directors.

Actions:

Delhi High Court allowed the company to sue an IP address `IP address

number 61.246.153.106, C/o Bharti Infotel, which is named as first Defendant.

Other sued are Yahoo Company (whose email ID used) & Bharti Infotel (the

ISP).



ILOVEYOU Worm

Facts: Also know as VBS/Loveletter and Love Bug worm

It began in Philippines on 4th May 2000 and spread over the world in one day through email

boxes. It infected 10% of all computers connected to the internet. Only Microsoft windows

operating system effected.

Subject line: “ILOVEYOU”. Attachment LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

Damage about Rs. 22,000 Crore

The Pentagon, British Parliament and most of the corporation shut down the email systems to

get rid of this worm.

Affecting:

The worm search all drives which are connected to the infected computer and replace files

The worm propagates by sending out copies of itself to all entries in the Microsoft Outlook

address book

Action:

There was no law against virus writing in Philippines, hence prosecutors dropped all the charges

against the offender. Govt. of Philippines enacted a Philippines eCommerce Law on 14th June

2000 to deal with Cyber Crime.

Documents

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