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Because of the expanding digital business environment, criminals perceive the virtual world as a fertile ground for fraud, e-crime investigator and consultant Albert Antwi-Boasiako said.
“ICT is emerging as the centre of gravity for fraud and other financial crimes for businesses operating in a digital world. All manner of criminal activities are committed with the computer. It ranges from money laundering, tax fraud, payroll fraud, among others. But how far have businesses trained their IT employees from the security perspective?” Antwi-Boasiako said.
He said the cyber-crime that the detectives knew as practitioners was far beyond the “sakawa” and 419.
“That is a minute aspect of the problem. In the banking sector, internal employees are inserting key loggers on machines to pick up passwords in collaboration with external agents – this is part of the cyber-crimes that are confronting the nation.
“When we talk about cyber-crime, we should not think about the sakawa boys, they are just the smallest group – and that is what security agencies have learnt,” he said.- CAJ News.
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