Anywhere around the world, there are security bridges in technology — hacking incidents on servers, online banking accounts, websites, and blogsites. There are also a lot of online criminals (termed as scammers) lurking around the net waiting for the millions of internet users to trust them and soon as they do, they would rob them off their money and online investments. Surely, technology opened an opportunity for online crimes to be committed. Unfortunately too, policing and security is lacking in this area.

I can speak clearly of this as I have been recently victimized by a scammer which ran away scott-free with my money and my blog’s database. I tried investigating this bogus geek and found out a lot of information about him but after learning so much, the next question is — where can I go to ask help? Clearly, there are no cyber crimes law yet that would protect “small mediapreneurs” like me from scammers.
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