The use of the Internet to perpetuate financial fraud, including, but not limited to; phishing emails to gather personal data from unsuspecting readers, fake items for sale on ebay, email scams that claim the recipient is owed money if they perform some transaction for the sender, phony investment schemes and identity theft. Many of these scams,are simply on line variants of fraudulent practices that have long existed off line. However, the Internet has given criminals access to a worldwide base of consumer targets as well as more opportunities to elude enforcement as they need not be in the same country, or even in the same hemisphere, as their victims.
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Turning Westward: Information Policies in Post Communist Romania and Bulgaria
Alan Katerinsky (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA), Alex Pantaleev (State University of New York at Oswego, USA), and H. R. Rao (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Copyright: © 2011
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-847-0.ch049
Abstract
This chapter is an examination of Eastern European information policy and practice. Our analysis will explore information policy of two countries in Eastern Europe in the context of cyber security, as exemplified in Bulgaria’s Legal and Regulatory framework and Romania’s uphill battle to fight cybercrime. In a larger context these nations highlight the struggle between freedom and security in cyberspace; a topic that is universal wherever technology intersects with politics and commerce.