Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists [Paperback]

J. A. Hitchcock (Author), Loraine Page (Editor), Vinton Cerf (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2006

As the number of Web users continues to swell, so do the numbers of online opportunists, con artists, and miscreants. Recognizing this danger, this book provides a reader-friendly guide that helps Web users identify, avoid, and survive online predators and protect their families. Detailing a broad range of abusive practices, ordinary computer users will share in victims' stories and advice on how to handle Spam, identify scams such as phishing, and deal with privacy invasion, financial scams, cyber stalking, and identity theft. Provided are tips, strategies, and techniques that can be put to immediate use, as well as laws, organizations, and Web resources that can aid victims and help them fight back.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"J.A. Hitchcock has produced an insightful book that is a must-read for everyone who owns a computer. Her advice will benefit millions."

About the Author

J. A. Hitchcock was herself a victim of cyberstalking who, following that experience, went on to become a victim's advocate. She is an Internet crimes and security expert and president of WHOA (Working to Halt Online Abuse). She lives in York, Maine. Vinton Cerf is widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet" for his work as codesigner of the TCP/IP
protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He is senior vice president of technology strategy for MCI.

Product Details

• Paperback: 459 pages
• Publisher: Information Today, Inc.; 2nd edition (May 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910965722
• ISBN-13: 978-0910965729
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,375,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for staying safe online!, July 12, 2006

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C. Jacobs "code monkey" (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists (Paperback)

This is the second edition of the previously read/critiqued Netcrimes and Misdemeanors book.

Once again, the author fills the pages with important and vital information about how to stay safe online. From scammers to hoaxes, stalkers and ebay, even online dating and keeping children safe from online predators, this book is packed with real life examples of how people made mistakes that made them a target for some online psycho. But not only does it have the mistakes that lead to the problem, it has the solutions and tricks to avoid the situation in the first place as well!

Both versions of this book are useful to anyone that surfs online, but I would urge people to get the second edition as it contains updated links and information. Learn to be safe online! Buy this book for yourself and anyone you know who's a newbie to the online world. You never know... it might just save their life.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insights and tips on preventing everything from identity theft to internet dating, newsgroup problems and more, August 4, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists (Paperback)

This revised, expanded second edition of Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, And Con Artists comes from a cybercrime expert who provides easy, efficient methods for handling a wide range of online attacks. Himself a one-time victim of cyberstalking, Hitchcock became a victim's advocate and so doesn't come from a programmer's background. Her coverage therefore is most accessible to the lay consumer - the most likely victim of such crimes - and offers insights and tips on preventing everything from identity theft to internet dating, newsgroup problems and more.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Former Cybercrime Victim's Opinion, June 4, 2006

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This review is from: Net Crimes & Misdemeanors: Outmaneuvering Web Spammers, Stalkers, and Con Artists (Paperback)

In general, the new information and new stories were woven amid the 1st edition information so well that there was no way to make any assumptions and skip along through. Just for the heck of it I tried! Then went back and thoroughly read the particular section and found that there was new stuff I'd missed. I did this intentionally a couple times to check. Gave up on the game and just kept reading! New stuff I *really* liked - the chapter on blogs, journals, etc. and the Nigerian Chapter. Even the Afterword was perfect. Just rightly written. Can't explain it other than it seemed to encompass the entirety of the book for you.

One (of many) of my favorite line(s). Intro, page 2, para.4, sentences 1 and 2. Buy the book and find out!

This book is excellent.