Cyber-bullying and cybercrimes are seen to be on the rise today. What are the causes for this? What are the solutions for this problem?

Apparently, the increase in cyber-bullying and cybercrimes does not come as a surprise with the advancement in technology where all the works are done remotely.

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significant increase in cyber-bullying and cyber crimes has certain reasons and possible solutions.

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ack of awareness in people about the online scams and no proper channel to report

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hefty issues to the government are the two notable reasons. Majority of the cybercrime involves scamming people for their personal banking details, which will later allow them to fully access their account.

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is because, Quite often people don't understand the necessity of setting a difficult password, logging out every time and to identify a scam or a scammer.

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, cyber-bullying is where people receive threats to their personal communication channels with random demands to refrain the hacker from sharing their pictures or secrets. While the public is concerned about their identity being revealed as there is no proper channel to confidentially report them .

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, A recent study suggests that most of the female users face online harassment but they just ignore as it could bring them to limelight when reported. Some possible solutions are educating the public about online crimes involving monetary motive and imposing strict rules of huge penalty or suspension of license on the companies under the finance sector when they fail to promote awareness to their clients. Here, television and newspaper ads would be the best way, as they are still the foremost way to reach

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ast mile. All the online social-networking or search engine platforms should have a simple method to report bullying in a click to the police officials.

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way, it allows the person to hide their identity and be contacted only when legislative action is required. To conclude, even though the lack of knowledge about secured internet banking and hesitance to reveal the identity are predominant reasons in the rise of cybercrimes and bullying. It could definitely be prevented to a large extent when the government handles them far more efficiently by imposing strict legal actions and promotions.