Scams increase over the internet, less identity fraud – nrc.nl

cables in a server room. Criminals are increasingly using networks to commit cyber attacks. Photos ANP / Koen van Weel

Economy

The number of people who fall victim to Internet fraud has increased last year. In 2014, the number of victims of fraud buy 90,000 increase, to 3.3 percent of the population older than 15 years. Two years earlier, that figure was 2.7 percent. Other forms of cybercrime, such as hacking and identity fraud have declined, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).

The number of people who fall victim to identity fraud, such as skimming, or hacking into both cases by 100,000 persons decreased compared to 2012. skimming of debit cards has become more difficult, because the magnetic stripe bank cards has been replaced by a chip. In addition, there is now the default setting pins outside Europe is not possible, except when specified in advance. The Dutch Banking Association reported earlier this year that the damage from skimming in 2013 had decreased by 76 percent to 6.8 million euros.

Hacking it is still the most common. Despite a decrease in the number of victims from 6.2 in 2013 to 5.2 percent last year, remains hacking – penetration without consent of another person’s computer – the biggest problem. Last year more than 700,000 people affected by it. In most cases, these are hackers who hack or log in to someone else’s e-mail.

Cybercrime affects mostly highly educated, because they operate more frequently on the Internet and more online shopping. In all three categories that distinguish the CBS (sale fraud, hacking, identity fraud), they are overrepresented

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