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| Introduction: Dealing with the online scammers is not as easy as catching the offline hooligans. The web world is borderless but the cyber laws are certainly not! The international laws don’t really work well with cyber crimes and as a matter of fact there aren’t enough of international cyber laws in place. |
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| Even with number of amendments in the cyber laws world wide and developments in the technology, the cyber scammers are always a step ahead of the authorities. |
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| Investigating a scam or its origin is not as easy as tracing a murderer in a metropolitan city. There are several jurisdictional constraints that restrict the government of one country to investigate the scam that was started by someone in another country. |
| Too many frauds too handle: Several hosting services and their abuse departments often receive no many scam reports and complaints that make it impossible for them to take action against every scam or reply every mail. This discourages general public from reporting scams and thus many frauds go unreported. |
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| Only big fish can be hooked: Online anti scamming agencies are often successful in getting hold of major scams that get reported by many people. This is simple – A balloon eventually bursts when it is filled with too much of air! However, online scammers are smart; they do not do much damage to a single individual or entity. They steal little from one person in US, a little from someone is UK and a little from someone elsewhere and thus make huge money without coming into focus. |
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| The cyber scams are highly unstable and are crafted by people of high mental acumen. They take enough care to camouflage the scams to make them look like interesting deals and leave little evidence of their deeds. |
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| What do the authorities lack? The police departments of most countries often don’t have the technical know-how and lack tools to investigate into the online scams. They have little understanding of how to work with digital evidence. What’s worse is that the justice departments too have few lawyers and judges who have good understanding of cyber technology and the associated scams. |
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| A government of one country can hardly take any action against a cyber criminal hiding in another country and hosting his website through the hosting service of his own or yet another country. These are just a few things that become hurdles in the way of getting hold of the cyber scammers. |
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| Cyber Scams in Future – Will National and International laws become effective? With the number of people, businesses and countries getting tech savvy, the future for the cyber scammers seems to be bright. The technology is improving but it is doing more good to the scammers than to the authorities. |
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| With the readily available tools for scamming and responsible agencies backing out by saying “it’s not their job to handle cyber crime”, the scammers seem to make a big laugh while they strengthen their knowledge and get ready to lay new traps in the ruthless cyber world. |
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| To conclude, neither the national agencies nor the international laws show a futuristic picture of being effective in tackling the internet scams and the possibility of any improvements in these laws in future is grim, more so their ability to handle the cyber scenario. |
