INTRODUCTION TO CRIME, FRAUD, AND CYBER CRIMES

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In this course the student is presented with the term fraud, its definition in the current Penal Code, and the crimes in which the term fraud is applied in the Criminal Justice System. The course also studies the terms applicable to the inhabitants of Cyberspace. You will know how to search and trace evidence in computers and digital equipment. The course discusses the ways to identify, preserve, pack, and present digital evidence in a legal process and the due control to which it must be submitted for the preservation of the Chain of Evidence. It includes the study of F ederal, state and international laws that apply to digital computer fraud.