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- noun
cybercrime
Etymologies
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Examples
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Detective Inspector Mark Raymond from the e-crime unit said: A great deal of personal information was compromised and cleverly exploited for substantial profits.
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The British public needs to snap out of its complacency about cybercrime or risk becoming victim to increasingly sophisticated criminal networks that are operating online, the head of the country's e-crime unit has warned.
Cybercrime complacency no laughing matter, police chief warns 2011
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The Metropolitan police's e-crime unit launched an investigation after being alerted to the scam in August and on Thursday seized computers and other equipment from addresses in London, Manchester and Bolton.
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The Metropolitan police e-crime unit acted in April to take such sites down.
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Sources close to the Met e-crime unit said there was "clear evidence of criminality" from the sites taken down.
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Nineteen websites offering fake computer support have been closed down by the Metropolitan police e-crime unit
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Pecon set up its remote support scheme in April 2008, saying it had had an "overwhelming response" from customers in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, and used the supportonclick site – now closed by the e-crime unit – for the service.
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London's Metropolitan Police has warned that the UK's local police forces "can no longer cope" with e-crime, and has called for a national unit to be set up to address the problem.
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In a report published last Thursday and written by detective chief inspector Charlie McMurdie of the Met's specialist crime directorate, the Met said that a national e-crime unit is needed to tackle cybercrime.
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Plenary discussion round up: internet governance, e-crime, ISPs
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