Hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, from the other side of the world, they are in your home with one click. There is no limit to the imagination and persistence of fraudsters. Thus, for the alleged NATO officer, several months of effort and rapprochement with an older married couple from Serbia, an English teacher and an engineer, paid off.
“They really developed a wonderful relationship, at least that’s what grandma and grandpa said, he tried to convince them to take over a shipment for him, how he was going to compensate them financially, because he’s not able to at the moment. Grandpa and grandma are took out a big loan and lost a lot of money,” says Sandra Bakić from the National Contact Center for Internet Security.
Fraudsters disappear without a trace, and with them the chance to compensate for the damage.
“There is a difficulty in finding out who is doing it, and the police may have a problem there, because the perpetrator can change IP addresses every 20 seconds,” said Emina Beković, educator of the National Contact Center.
Annually, the Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime receives 500 such reports.
More abuse is reported
There are many more reports of defamation in private lawsuits. And what is considered an insult is not precisely defined by law.
“What is important about the criminal offense of insult is that according to objective criteria, that honor, that is, the reputation – was humiliated, that is, that something like that was attacked in the criminal and legal sense. Recent decisions of the Court of Appeal established that the public prosecutor is competent for criminal prosecution exclusively in in the case of an insane person, and a person who needs to be sentenced to the security measure of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric institution or at liberty. So, only and exclusively in that situation,” explains Boris Majlat, deputy public prosecutor for high-tech crime.
Social networks have their own rules of conduct and measures for users who abuse them.
“There is an administrator of a social network, e.g. Facebook or Instagram, who will deactivate that profile after certain applications. But that does not prevent a new one from being created,” says educator Emina Beković.
Insults over the internet in Japan have recently been punishable by prison. In Serbia, it will cost the perpetrator from 40,000 to 200,000 dinars. Threats, spreading panic, riots, racial and national hatred are criminal acts, which are punishable by imprisonment.
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