Tehnika (Jan 2021)
COVID-19 as a scam challenge
Abstract
Any nature-related occurrence can be seen as a security threat as it puts under the risk the human lives, their well-being as well as the entire infrastructure. The natural disasters and pandemic events are by many classified as the threats and they can seriously make harm to the majority of people and their assets. In the practice, the recent pandemic occurrence such as the Ebola is recognized by the Interpol as a bio-terrorism. That illness has taken the lives to so many people in Africa and wider, but with the discovery of the vaccine the pandemic has been put under the control. Even now the similar situation is with the COVID-19 pandemic as such a biological threat is not fully manageable due to the lack of the immunization. However, there are some empirical indications suggesting that with the appearance of the critical situation so many people will show the solidarity and willingness to support those being in the need. On the other hand, not any appeal for a help will be honest and so many fraudsters can try to take advantage over the people's weaknesses. Those persons deal with the entire psychology of the victim and they can accurately choose the moment to attack and which strategy to use. Basically, what we talk about is the criminological challenge and it does not appear in the physical environment only but also in the cyberspace as the skillfully planned hacking operation. The reason why so many people get hooked with such a criminality is that the donations are symbolic, so the number of victims can increase as the majority will be willing to give the money away. In other words, so many victims will be in deception and the criminals will take only several dollars from each of them, so if the minority of the victims even report about such an event they will signalize that someone took the very small amount of the money from them and in such a case the punishment is so weak or even does not exist. The different schemes are present regarding the cybercrime as those criminal groups could try to avoid the severe punishment doing the camouflage in the virtual domain. Finally, the role of this effort is to provide a comprehensive insight into the challenges of such scams as well as analyze their impacts to communities.
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