Saturday, December 11, 2010

Case Study on Cyber Stalking

Dear Friends,

Just few days ago one of my valuable reader from USA mailed me and asked me whether I had an experience on real life critical cyber-stalking case investigation or not and I mailed him some of my real life investigation experiences but I did not published those in my blog, so I want to share one of my critical case investigation on very recent complaint about cyber-stalking, which made the life of a gentle lady hell.

Before reading this case study I would request you to visit here for knowing details about cyber stalking.

This is a case where, a multinational renowned corporate house A complained that someone had been continuously sending offensive and abusive email to their customer care mail id with some obscene pictures as attachment in the name of a lady of another company B. All the mail was clearly disclosing the name of that lady and the content was written in such a manner that it seemed to company A that the mail was sent by the lady herself due poor package to her. Here company A outsourced his customer care work from company B.

During enquiry it came into light that the mail id in the name of lady of company B was created by a guy as his love offer was not accepted by that lady. The guy became so violent that one day he assaulted the husband of the lady badly and searching the address of the lady from Telephone Directory he dialed her neighbors in different names from different booths and tried to prove her prostitute in her locality. Investigating agency during investigation further revealed that the said guy also did same kind of work one year ago and at that time he sent mail to Police authority by sending a challenge to explode bomb in a renowned temple on the night of a Puja celebration. At that time also she used another girls email id as she also turned him down. His intention in both the cases was to make hell the life of the lady of his target. He thought Police would arrest those ladies as their names came openly in the email.
Finally he was arrested and all the evidences were collected against him by the investigating agencies in both the cases.

Someone may call this guy Erotomanic or love obsessional cyber stalker. Whatever it may be but they are really dangerous to the society as a large. If these kind of guys are refused by his desired one they can do anything.

So my friends beware from them. Best of luck.

Thanking you,

Urproblemmysolution Team

Thursday, December 2, 2010

What are Different types of Phishing

Hi My Friends,

I had already discussed you a lot about phishing but I think I have made you clear about the meaning and style of phishing but now the time has come to tell you about different types of phishing. I think you are thinking about online lottery fraud, job offer fraud, and fund transfer fraud and so on but my friends it’s not like that. I am going to tell about “Old wine in new bottle”. What does it mean? It is the style of business men to bring their old product in new style and in some specific style. I did not mention it earlier as all of these are phishing but some of friends told me to write about these topics otherwise writing about phishing will be incomplete.
Initially all the experts in the cyber world called all these activities are phishing and as time moves the experts started to christen the name of style of phishing as follows:-

A) Spear Phishing: - This comes in the form email like updating banking password, email id password and so on but this kind of email comes to a specific group of persons like the employees of a company or a government organization or same group and so on. It seems that the mail has come from your employer for divulging important information.

B) Smishing: - This comes in the form of SMS message. Like your mobile number has won $5 bln in a lottery and you are requested to contact Mr. G…… in his email id a….@hotmail.com and so on. And you are trapped.

C) Vishing: - This style of phishing happens through VoIP i.e:- Voice over Internet Protocol . Actually this is a combination of ‘Voice’ and ‘Phishing’. You are getting a net call from someone, who is asking you about your personal important information in the name of a company, where you have stake or you are a stake holder, employee or some other style. You will see an example of vishing in this blog here.

D) Whale-Phishing: - I think all of you know about whale. Whale is a big fish in the sea. So if you consider the net is a sea where we all are fish then if the phisher catches the most important person by his technique, he is a whale phisher. So I think you have understood about whale phishing. It’s a style of phishing where phisher targets the most important person of the concern like CEO of a company.

So my friends now you are clear about the types of phishing which are used to catch the netizens. Be cautious and divulge your personal information to him only, whom you trust after proper verification.

For reading other case studies on cyber crime pl visit.

Best of luck.

Thanking you,

Urproblemmysolution Team