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    This document defines and provides examples of three types of cybercrimes: cyber squatting, cyber smearing, and cyber stalking. Cyber squatting involves the illegal registration of domain names to profit from increased website traffic. An example given is of Google winning a case against the registration of "googblog.com". Cyber smearing or cyber defamation is publishing defamatory material about someone online. An example case in India is provided. Cyber stalking refers to using electronic communications like the internet or email to stalk, harass, or threaten someone, with an example given of illegally impersonating someone in online chats.

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    This document defines and provides examples of three types of cybercrimes: cyber squatting, cyber smearing, and cyber stalking. Cyber squatting involves the illegal registration of domain names to profit from increased website traffic. An example given is of Google winning a case against the registration of "googblog.com". Cyber smearing or cyber defamation is publishing defamatory material about someone online. An example case in India is provided. Cyber stalking refers to using electronic communications like the internet or email to stalk, harass, or threaten someone, with an example given of illegally impersonating someone in online chats.

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    This document defines and provides examples of three types of cybercrimes: cyber squatting, cyber smearing, and cyber stalking. Cyber squatting involves the illegal registration of domain names to profit from increased website traffic. An example given is of Google winning a case against the registration of "googblog.com". Cyber smearing or cyber defamation is publishing defamatory material about someone online. An example case in India is provided. Cyber stalking refers to using electronic communications like the internet or email to stalk, harass, or threaten someone, with an example given of illegally impersonating someone in online chats.

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    This document defines and provides examples of three types of cybercrimes: cyber squatting, cyber smearing, and cyber stalking. Cyber squatting involves the illegal registration of domain names to profit from increased website traffic. An example given is of Google winning a case against the registration of "googblog.com". Cyber smearing or cyber defamation is publishing defamatory material about someone online. An example case in India is provided. Cyber stalking refers to using electronic communications like the internet or email to stalk, harass, or threaten someone, with an example given of illegally impersonating someone in online chats.

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    Cyber Squatting

    Cyber Smearing
    Cyber Stalking

    Name : Riya sharma


    RolL No : 79

    1
    agenda

    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. WHAT IS CYBER SQUATTING?
    3. EXAMPLE OF CYBER SQUATTING
    4. WHAT IS CYBER SMEARING OR CYBER
    DEFAMATION?
    5. EXAMPLE OF CYBER SMEARING
    6. WHAT IS CYBER STALKING?
    7. EXAMPLE OF CYBER STALKING
    8. REFERENCES

    2
    introduction

    • Cybercrime is defined as
    a crime in which a
    computer is the object of
    the crime (hacking,
    phishing, spamming) or is
    used as a tool to commit
    an offense.

    • Cybercrime may also be


    referred to as computer3
    CYBER SQUATTING

    • Cyber Squatting refers to


    illegal domain name
    registration or use.

    • Its primary purpose is to


    steal or misspell a domain
    name in order
    to profit from an increase in
    website visits.

    • Cyber Squatting is also


    3
    Example

    • In 2009, Internet software


    company Google Inc. won a
    cyber squatting case against
    an Indian teenager who had
    registered a domain name
    googblog.com.

    • The domain name, Google


    contended, was confusingly
    similar to its trademark.

    4
    CYBER Smearing Or cyber defamatiion

    • The term defamation is


    used to define the injury
    that is caused to the
    reputation of a person in
    the eyes of a third person.

    • Cyber defamation is
    publishing of defamatory
    material against another
    person with the help of
    computers or internet. 5
    example

    • SMC Pneumatics (India) Pvt.


    Ltd. Vs Jogesh Kwatra
    In this case, the defendant
    Jogesh Kwatra being an
    employee of the plaintiff
    company started sending
    defamatory and abusive emails
    to his employers with the aim to
    defame the company and its
    Managing Director Mr. R K
    Malhotra.

    It is India’s first case of Cyber


    6
    Cyber stalking

    • Cyber Stalking refers to


    the crime of using the
    Internet, email, or other
    types of electronic
    communications to stalk,
    harass, or threaten another
    person.

    • Cyberstalking is
    sometimes referred to as
    Internet stalking, e- 7
    example

    • Manish was stalking a


    person called Ritu Kohli on
    the Net by illegally
    chatting on the website
    www.mirc.com with the
    name of Ritu Kohli. Manish
    was regularly chatting
    under the identity of Ritu
    Kohli on the said Website,
    was distributing her
    residence telephone
    number and inviting 8
    9
    references

    • https://www.techopedia.com
    • www.icmrindia.org/
    • http://www.helplinelaw.com
    • http://www.legalserviceindia.com
    • https://legaldictionary.net
    • https://www.legalindia.com
    “
    THANK YOU

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