Title: Cybercrime - Wikipedia
Headings: Cybercrime
Cybercrime
Contents
Classifications
Financial fraud crimes
Cyberterrorism
Cyberextortion
Cybersex trafficking
Cyberwarfare
Computer as a target
Computer as a tool
Obscene or offensive content
Online harassment
Drug trafficking
Combating computer crime
Investigation
Prevention
Legislation
Penalties
Awareness
Intelligence
Diffusion of cybercrime
Agencies
See also
References
Further reading
External links
Government resources

Content: The damage dealt is largely psychological and intangible, making legal action against the variants more difficult. These are the crimes which have existed for centuries in the offline world. Scams, theft, and the likes have existed even before the development in high-tech equipment. The same criminal has simply been given a tool which increases their potential pool of victims and makes them all the harder to trace and apprehend. Crimes that use computer networks or devices to advance other ends include: Fraud and identity theft (although this increasingly uses malware, hacking or phishing, making it an example of both "computer as target" and "computer as tool" crime)
Information warfare
Phishing scams
Spam
Propagation of illegal obs