CYBERCRIME: A THREAT TO A MORAL SOCIETY

Abstract

Several internet related crimes known as cybercrimes are committed daily in various ways such as Spamming, IP Spoofing, fake bank alert messages (SMS) /unsolicited SMS requesting you to provide bank details as Bank Verification Number (BVN), Advance fee fraud, identity theft, piracy, pornography,hacking, fraudulent e-mail related SMS, forgery such as fake documents as Certificateetc. Cybercrimes is on the increase, and is gradually becoming a threat to our moral life and the society at large. The increase number of cybercrime rate is an open field of ongoing research studies. This paper have propose a new approach that emphases on the prominent cybercrimes carried out in some major areas in Nigeria, precisely within secondary school students and presents a study of cybercrimes in these institutions within kebbi State and sokoto state. Presents a new approach to Cybercrime prevention in order to efficiently combat cyber related crimes in Nigeria.