Sounds familiar? Well, cyber crimes are beginning to build concerns among society. Privacy is not a prime privilege on the Internet anymore. It might be true that the cyber crimes are less complex but let's face it, Malaysian criminals have been known for their peculiar wits of getting around security procedures. Malaysian criminals have been nabbed across the globe for complicated and advanced credit card cloning and fraud scams. The best part is, chip-based credit cards are only slowing them down, not stopping them from committing crimes all together.

Cyber criminals are currently using whatever accessible resources to carry out crimes freely and conveniently. Many cyber criminals are making full use of the third party, hiring tech people i.e. chatroom which are used to sell credit card numbers and free form-information provider engines like FormMail which creates phishing sites. Additionally, web sites, which destroy, and compromise your computers by deceiving you into logging into a legitimate looking web site, have been discovered called Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attachments.

On the contrary, measures have been taken to fight these cyber scams. Investigating officers are now working hard to find ways to retrieve evidence to solve cases without breaking the chain of evidence custody. Stenography, an advanced encryption technology used by the military to track down criminal activities has been introduced to fight these scams. In addition, it is important that the public, private sector, and banks report any occurrence of cyber criminal involvement. Only then can the authorities distinguish and learn more about the criminals work. Thus, to fight cyber crimes, it is vital for the Internet users, despite the difference in their discipline, to join forces and give their full cooperation to the authorities.