STUDENTS PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA FRAUD
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Technology has integrated nations and the world has become a global village. The economy of most nations in the world is accessible through the aid of electronic via the internet. Since the electronic market is opened to everybody (which also includes eavesdroppers and criminals), false pretence finds a fertile ground in this situation.
However, information technology revolution associated with the internet has brought about two edge functions: that is on one hand, it has contributed positive values to the world. While on the other hand, it has produced so many maladies that threaten the order of the society and also producing a new wave of crime to the world. The internet online business services, which ordinarily suppose to be a blessing as it exposes one to a lot of opportunities in various field of life is fast becoming a source of discomfort and worry due to the atrocity being perpetrated through it.
Shinder (2002), define social media fraud as any criminal offenses committed using the internet or another computer network as a component of the crime. Social media frauds are offences that are committed against individual or group of individuals with a criminal motive to internationally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly using modern telecommunication networks such as internet and mobile phones. Such crimes may threaten nation’s security and financial health (Akogwu, 2012).
RESEARCH PROBLEM
The contribution of internet to the development of the nation has been marred by the evolution of new waves of crime. The internet has also become an environment where the most lucrative and safest crime thrives. Social media fraud has become a global threat from Europe to America, Africa to Asia. Social media fraud has come as a surprise and a strange phenomenon that for now lives with us in Nigeria. With each passing day, we witness more and more alarming cases of social media frauds in Nigeria, with each new case more shocking than the one before.
It has become a stubborn mouth sore which causes us a lot of pain and shame because criminally minded individuals in the country are stealing and committing atrocity through the aid of the internet online business transactions.
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