WHAT WENT

WRONG?
A cybercrime story

Mahinay & Calamay

Introduction
Have you ever notice how cyber crime is dreadfully getting on our nerves?
How many second thoughts have you had before going online and making
any transaction? We hear and read new stories everyday, telling about the
victims of cyber crime, but have you learned your lesson from it?

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Jenny Watson is a resident of Toronto, Canada. She
works at a restaurant and lives with her two kids. She
is a single mother and works really hard to provide the
best to her kids.

Jenny wanted her kids to get acquainted with the

digital world. Therefore, after saving for quite some
time, Jenny at last manage to save enough to buy a
second hand computer. At first she used it to check
her mails and her boys used the computer to play
games. Later on, she saw that her mailbox was getting
filled up fast with promotional emails.

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At first , she used to click on every promotional email to check the deals. However,
later on she found them worthless, so she started to simply leave them unopened.

After nearly a month, Jenny’s computer started to get slower and slower with every
passing day. It started to become a hassle for Jenny and her kids to use it. So, Jenny and
her kids stopped using it. Since Jenny knew very little about technology, and she
certainly was not a tech-geek, she didn’t thought of getting her computer repaired.

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During Christmas, she really needed to find the best place from where she could buy
gifts for her family and friends at discounted prices. She borrowed her father’s laptop
for her search. Later on, she experienced the same problem with the laptop that she
already faced with her own computer.

Jenny discussed the issue with her cousin who is studying computer engineering. She
told Jenny that the problem was not her; rather, the problem was how to use the
internet. She further elaborated the consequences of using internet blindly. She went
to Jenny’s place, downloaded a spyware program and instructed Jenny to be extra
cautious while clicking on unknown links.

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Jenny’s problem of a slow computer has been solved. From that day onwards, Jenny’s
computer has become as fast as it was on the first day.

However, Jenny forgot her lesson too quick and one day she got a pop-up on her
window, congratulating her for winning a $1000 prize. To claim the prize, it asked
Jenny to answer a few questions. She clicked on the link, answer the questions and
proceeded further. Later on, she was asked to buy at least two products of the website
to claim her reward. She bought the least priced items and entered her credit card
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She waited for hours but didn’t receive any reward in her mailbox. She checked her
credit card details and was astonished to see the whole limit had been used up on
online purchases.

It took a whole year for Jenny to repay the credit card bills. That day onwards, she
started hating the internet and has no connection at her home since then. Her kids use
internet at school or library for study purposes.

Jenny had one very bad incident and so does many other people every other day, but
the question is, “what went wrong?”

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 Wrong are the practices people use when they go online without
having any security. So, do remember , It’s not YOU, it’s the way you
USE the internet.

The only way you can be sure of your online privacy and security of
your data is by smartening up, getting educated about various tools
that help you become safe and secure on the internet. NEVER provide
your information to an unreliable, unknown and unverified website or
individual, don’t take internet security lightly. After all, you wouldn’t
want to land up in the same place as Jenny, do you?
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