Standing Tall Against Cybercriminals By Marc Stewart

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Cybercrime can happen to anyone. These crimes can be big or small, they can impact one person or a whole college. Marc Stewart’s article “Standing tall against cybercriminals. University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene offers risk assessments, training and workshops to local businesses ad nonprofits” focuses on different examples of times when cybercrime has occurred and the things to not only look out for but also ways to prevent it happening to you. The article first starts off with a cybercrime that could happen to anyone, an electronic skimming device at a gas station. The gas station, located in Post Falls, Idaho, was being targeted by thieves in Florida. The thieves collected credit card information without customer’s knowledge when they simply paid at the pump. The thieves used the information to create counterfeit credit cards. This cybercrime targeted many customers. In North Idaho, a couple were scammed out of $1,000 when they responded to a fake Craigslist advertisement for a rental home. It turned out that there was no home and the couple handed over their credit card information to an online thief. …show more content…

“Many times when products are bought online with counterfeit credit cards, the businesses have to eat the loss,” Stewart explains. The article also stated that both international and national criminals target North Idaho businesses via the internet because residence of this area are quick to trust people. The University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene wants to help educate people, both consumers and business owners about the dangers of cybercrime. The University will conduct assessments, workshops and classes at a reduced cost to change the awareness of

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