Cybercrime in Social Media

Online gaming

Online gaming portals are increasing day by day, and no doubt, like other online platforms, it also has flaws. As per a media survey, gamers spend at least six hours a week in online gaming. Verbal abuse has been found very common in gaming chats and lobbies. In the online gaming community, bullies are called griefers. Cybercriminals find online gaming an easy platform to target teens for various motives such as cyberbullying, money extortion, and abetting them to commit suicide.

Figure 3.7: Online gaming

Example: We all had seen the case of the Blue Whale game when it was on a peak across every news channel and every nation reporting death and traumatic effects it had on teens. Blue whale game, choking challenge, Ghost pepper challenge, Ice and Salt Challenge, Car Surfing challenge, and PUBG are a few of the games which had a negative impact. Teens have been given challenges in these provocative and mentally sickening games. Ultimately cybercriminals isolate the

teens from friends and family and abet them into committing suicide or extort money from them.

Online gaming and common tricks used by cybercriminals during Online Gaming

Some of the common tricks used by cybercriminals are as follows:

Figure 3.8: Online gaming

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  Game developers create several levels of violent simulations
  
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  WhatsApp groups for games are created where players need to update admin and take up new challenges continuously
  
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  Tricking teenagers into isolation from friends, families, and so on ultimately making them believe that it's not just a game but a reality
  
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  Embarrassing teens for not being able to complete challenges
  
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  Threatening teens to make their pictures public and share them with their friends
  
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  Games such as PUBG are designed to make teens violent and addicted so that they can't abstain from it anywhere, be it schools, roads, public transport, hospitals, and so on
  
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  Several other games such as Choking challenge, Ghost pepper challenge, Ice and Salt Challenge, Car surfing challenge are designed to cause various physical and mental damages to teens
  

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