AN ANALYSIS OF CYBER ECONOMIC CRIMES IDENTITY THEFT AND ONLINE FRAUD -TRENDS, AND PREVENTION ESPECIALLY IN INDIA

 AUTHOR – M.SRIHARIPRASATH* & T. VAISHALI**, LLM SCHOLAR* & ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW** THE TAMIL NADU AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA.

BEST CITATION – M.SRIHARIPRASATH & T. VAISHALI, AN ANALYSIS OF CYBER ECONOMIC CRIMES IDENTITY THEFT AND ONLINE FRAUD -TRENDS, AND PREVENTION ESPECIALLY IN INDIA, ILE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 3 (1) OF 2024, PG. 325-329, APIS – 3920-0007 | ISSN – 2583-7230

Abstract

           The article analyses the serious issues that are predominant in present society: identity theft and online fraud, which are part of cyber-economic crimes. With the development of new technologies, crimes also develop along with it. Identity is one of the most valuable assets of a person in the present era, in earlier days to identify a person we checked with moles, scars, and marks of a person later we used photos to identify but nowadays in the boom of technology we have to put a password, OTP’s, Finger Print and even a face and eye scan to prove that you are you. When we come to online fraud most of the rural as well as old age people are affected by this compared with present generation people. The objective of this research is to find in what ways we can protect our identity and prevent ourselves from online scams to find effective methods and technologies to avoid online frauds and to analyze the recent laws and their effectiveness over these technology-based frauds and scams. In this article, the researcher uses a doctrinal method for an analysis.

KEYWORDS: Cyber, Identity, scam, technology, crime, frauds, etc.