People nowadays are lured towards Social Media, as age and gender, are never the parameters for signing up profiles on online social networks for connecting with one another during this virtual world. As some of us have hundreds or thousands of friends and followers spread across multiple profiles. But at the same time, there's the accretion of faux profiles which leads to Cyber Crime in Social Media. It is seen how these fake profiles often spam legitimate users, posting inappropriate or illegal content. Such profiles also are created to misrepresenting some known person to cause harassment.

What are the most common targeted forum for Cyber Crimes?

1. Facebook

2. Instagram

3. Twitter

4. LinkedIn

What are the common Cyber Crimes committed through Social Media?

1. Online Threats, Stalking, Cyberbullying: The most regularly reported and surveyed crimes that occur under social media implicate people making threats, bullying, harassing, and stalking others online. While much of this sort of activity goes unpunished or isn't taken seriously, victims of those sorts of crimes frequently do not know when to call the police. 

2. Hacking and Fraud: Although logging into an unknown social media account to post an embarrassing status message is another way of Cyber Crime. Besides, while creating fake accounts, or impersonated accounts, to trick people is a punishable offence.

3. Buying Illegal Things: Connecting via social media to form business connections, or to shop for legal goods or services could also be perfectly legal. Having said that, connecting over social media to shop for drugs, or other regulated, controlled or banned products is perhaps illegal.

4. Vacation Robberies: This is quite astonishing that burglars often use your social media handle to track your location and then involves into a crime.

5. Fake online friendship/ Impersonation: Developing online friendship over social media (with no real-life familiarity and using the emotional hook up with trick you in transferring funds on some pretext like medical emergency, legal troubles, problems during a foreign country etc.

How can Online Legal India™ help you?

We have a team of the legal concierge who would resolve your issue as well as file a Consumer Complaint against Cyber Crime in Social Media and would work on it until your contentment. One can also take active services like taking Legal Advice or issuing and Legal Notice for Cyber Crime with facts proves and statements. Our learned legal advocate team will help you draft one legal notice and send across to the accused party.