Cybercrime in Social Media

Figure 3.2: Cyberbullying
Easy targets are school kids, teenagers, women, and coworking professionals.

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  Cyber teasing: It is a behavioral pattern of an individual. These personalities specially target women and humiliate them on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp. They post indecent comments or certain viral videos.
  
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  Cyber defamation: It is an act when false information is published to malign the reputation of an individual or group, or false campaigns are being run by someone to tarnish the image of any organization:
  

Figure 3.3: Cyber defamation

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  Cyberstalking: It is a well-planned cybercrime. Initially, one may send negative or unpleasant comments or messages, but later on, cybercriminals send annoying messages or post false accusations on commonly used social media apps or portals. These messages may be from one or many accounts managed by the same person. Sometimes cyberstalking is done indirectly to collect personal information with the intention of identity theft.
  

Figure 3.4: Cyberstalking
It has been found that normally cyberstalkers are known to the victim or his/her family.

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  Cyber pornography: Pornographers sell porn content to people over social media; they may create fake profiles to do so. Watching and keeping porn content is illegal in India. Please see the reference website as follows:
  

http://legalserviceindia.com/
Cyber obscenity is a criminal offense in India, and it imposes liability on an offender under sections 66E and 67. To include children in sexual acts or online relationships is also illegal.

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  Revenge pornography: Publication/distribution of sexual content to disgrace or tarnish the image of an individual. These videos may be made with or without the consent of the subject but are distributed without consent. Children, teenagers, and women are the main targets, but any colleague can also do this irrespective of gender in any organization due to jealousy.
  
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