The Menace of Cyber Crime

OSAYE JOHN TAIWO(HND 1 MASSCOMM.)

I am reclaiming what belongs to me, i am reclaiming what they took from my forefathers, these are the statement that comes from corrupt and ill-mannered crime boys tagged "yahoo yahoo" or better still "wire wire"as they acclaimed to be.

The cyber space that has been created for the betterment of the masses, the platform through which one can get information, spread useful information and develop oneself to becoming great and veritable individual in the society has hitherto become "workshop" or "office" of both the educated and illiterate men who hide behind the scheme of "no job"to perpetuate several neferous cyber crime, duping and causing sorrow to people who have laboured hard to earn their wealth but not wise enough not to have fall victim of the "internet robber"omo yahoo.

These so called omo yahoo are being celebrated and you hear younger ones saying "mo fe ma sashe ",matured ladies saying my boyfriend is into yahoo yahoo,is this sanity or madness?.The police and some bank officials are not left out because some of them are accomplice who aides the internet fraud transaction successful and stress free, why blame them they have a cut.

These menace and get rich quick scheme by these guys will not stop until when the government begin to create adequate check and monitor the use of the cyber space and hear the cries of its teeming youth population who have no job until then, the issue of cybercrime will only increase rather than reduce.

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