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UK Police Chief: Cyber Crime Is Everywhere

Nick Heath writes on silicon.com:

The head of e-crime for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Sharon Lemon, has warned e-crime is so widespread it now plays a role in nearly every criminal investigation.

Lemon said that with computers widely used by criminals it was essential for each of the UK's 43 police forces to be able to tackle e-crime.

She said: "It needs more awareness and in the year 2008 e-crime is not a specialist crime anymore, it is something that is spreading out to take in all of organised crime.

"These people find each other over the internet, they use encryption to protect their data. It is about making sure that everybody in law enforcement understands that e-crime is part of their daily business."

Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that the UK and the US were the targets.

posted by Fergie @ 3/19/2008 12:42:00 PM