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Title	Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering the Spammers, Swindlers, and Stalkers Who Are Targeting You Online
Author(s)	J.A. Hitchcock
ISBN	0910965579
Language	English
Published	July 2002
Publisher	Cyberage Books

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
This book is not about net crimes in general, but about cyberstalking and online harassment. Chapter one details Hitchcock's own experience with cyberstalking and harassment, an extremely unpleasant case of deliberate personal attack by fraudsters she had exposed. Three other cases are briefly described in chapter two, along with some basic advice on header analysis. Spam is delineated, and some helpful sites for dealing with it are listed, in chapter three (which also contains the usual, not terribly useful, suggestions for keeping your address off the net). Chapter four lists some urban legends and chain letters, which are hardly criminal material. Chapter five lists various types of online scams, but really only addresses credit card theft. The utility of the advice varies: the book suggests that you only deal with vendors with a professional looking website (hardly a guarantee of virtue), but also gives fairly detailed descriptions of indicators for a secure HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) session. Online auction fraud is covered in chapter six, from the perspective of both buyer and seller. The story of adoption fraud, in chapter seven, is particularly distressing. Chapter eight give some account of identity theft, but the initial "case" is more related to harassment, and the material never really looks at more usual identity theft situations. More cases of cyberstalking are listed in chapter nine, with not as much helpful content. Chapter ten discusses trolls, flames--and more harassment. Chapter eleven examines chat and harassment. Other means of harassment are discussed in chapter twelve. Child exploitation is reviewed in chapter thirteen. Chapter fourteen looks at various issues in the workplace. Statements from various law enforcement personnel are given in chapter fifteen--along with an odd mention of the Sam Spade program. Harassment at universities is covered in chapter sixteen. There is a terse mention of the PGP program in seventeen. Chapter eighteen describes viruses and firewalls, but not very well. Tips on investigating harassment are in chapter nineteen. The book does provide some helpful resources on certain topics. It could have provided more, if it didn't keep returning to the same topic over and over again. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004
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As the number of Web users continues to swell, so do the numbers of online opportunists, con artists, miscreants, and psychopaths. Recognizing this danger, this book provides a reader-friendly guide that helps Web users identify, avoid, and survive online predators and protect their families. Detailing a broad range of abusive practices, ordinary PC users will share in victims' stories and advice on how to handle junk e-mail, "flaming," privacy invasion, financial scams, cyber stalking, and identity theft. Provided are tips, strategies, and techniques that can be put to immediate use, as well as laws, organizations, and Web resources that can aid victims and help them fight back.