Recent news events have highlighted individuals actively engaged in criminal pursuits using false identities to disguise themselves and conceal their unlawful acts.
Over the past twenty years fraudulent activities conducted by African criminal groups have escalated posing a significant threat to email users worldwide.
Frequently, the media characterizes computer crimes as those involving hacking (gaining unauthorized computer network access), cracking (another word for gaining unauthorized access to a computer or program), or web page defacing (gaining unauthorized access to a web page and changing its content).