Computer Crimes Cynthia Simmons Began Receiving Unwanted Essay

Computer Crimes

Cynthia Simmons began receiving unwanted communication from an unknown assailant. She did what the experts recommend: she changed her email address, instant messenger identity and other online identifiers, nothing stopped the computer harassment. She believes the offender to be her ex-boyfriend, Jacob Myers, but even searching her computer and comparing the offending emails to that of Jacob Myers, the evidence has not been sufficient to obtain a search warrant to search Jacob Myers' computer.

It appears that Ms. Simmons is the victim of cyberstalking. According the NCSL, "cyberstalking is the use of the Internet, email or other electronic communications to stalk, and generally refers to a pattern of threatening or malicious behaviors." She, Ms. Simmons, has been receiving calls to her home propositioning her for services and she found out that someone had placed her contact information on an escort service website. Stalking is a serious crime, whether done with a computer or not and almost every state has a law on the books against stalking and several states now have laws against cyberstalking.

In the past few days Ms. Simmons has been contacted via e-mail on how to stop the harassment. She was told to send $9.99 through PayPal for four different payments. However, when the identify of the account holder was discovered, it was traced to….....