CYBER CRIME AND ITS LEGAL REMEDIES

It usually begins with something small, A message from an unknown number asking you to verify your bank details with a link promising a refund you never expected or a stranger’s profile suddenly messaging your family members using your photograph. By the time the victim realises what has happened, money has left their account, their identity has been borrowed for someone else’s fraud or their private pictures are circulating without consent. Cybercrime rarely announces itself; it slips in through the same convenience that makes digital life so attractive. As more of our banking, relationships and work move online, the law has had to catch up with a criminal who no longer needs to enter a home to rob it.