Full Guide on Cyber Crimes in India

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CA Mayur Joshi
CA Mayur Joshihttp://www.mayurjoshi.com
CA Mayur Joshi is a Forensic Accounting evangelist in India. He is the co-founder of Indiaforensic and is author of 7 books on forensic accounting, fraud investigations and money laundering.

The invention of the computers has opened new avenues for the fraudsters. Cyber Crimes are those evils that have their origin in the growing dependence on computers in modern life. Though there is a great talk about cyber crimes there is nothing called cyber crime. Crimes such as fraud, and forgery are traditional and are covered by separate statutes such as the Indian Penal Code or alikes. However, the abuse of computer and related electronic media has given birth to a gamut of new types of crimes which has some peculiar features.

A simple yet sturdy definition of cyber crimes would be “unlawful acts wherein the equipment transforming the information be it a computer or a mobile is either a tool or a target or both”. In India, the information Technology Act deals with the acts wherein the computer is a tool for an unlawful act. This kind of activity usually involves a modification of a conventional crime by using computers. Some examples are:

Financial crimes

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