Combating Cyber Crime

Nigeria is prominent for cyber crime or scam popularly called Yahoo Yahoo (advanced now is Yahoo+). It always baffles me how we got to this level coupled with the sheer societal acknowledgement and uncontrolled manner in which these heinous crimes are perpetrated. As a professional, I always think this is one of the easiest crimes to forestall and requires not too sophisticated technological implementations before a criminal can be arrested.

This crime has created embarrassment for Nigeria nationals across the globe as major e-payment services have put the nation on the blacklist. Organisations like PayPal and EBay has totally stopped any transaction that relates to Nigeria. This scum is a major challenge in our society as little children even are acquainted with terms like maga, control number, sequence and so on. The Nigerian entertainment scene is another breeding ground for these criminals as their act and conquest are always reflected in songs and even movies. Stopping this is a major step for policing and crime prevention in Nigeria. Combating cyber crime is a major branding effort and signal to the world that the nation is serious about corruption.

Technologically, we can combat this crime. Ways of combating cybercrime coupled with early detection will be discussed in subsequent posts. The background to the discussion is that, your identity on the web can be detected effortlessly. The approach to be taken the security agencies with intricate analysis will be discussed.

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