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Lesson Note

Cyber Bullying is offensive, Cyber Stalking is when someone Cyber Trollsare those people
intimidating, malicious or repetitively pursues and follows who behave “in a deceptive,
insulting behaviour, an another in a menacing and destructive, or disruptive
abuse or misuse of power threatening manner that disturbs the manner in a social setting on
which is meant to victims’ sense of safety and well- the Internet with no apparent
undermine, humiliate or being. instrumental purpose”.
injure the person to whom The behaviour of stalkers will Trolls find enjoyment in
it is directed. typically cause a victim to feel harassing and tormenting
physically, mentally, or emotionally others.
unsafe – sometimes a combination of
all three.

Cyber stalkers often do this to trouble their victims :
• They collect all personal information about the victim such as name, family background,
telephone numbers of residence and work place, daily routine of the victim, address of
residence and place of work, date of birth etc.
• The stalker may post this information on any filthy/obscene or illegal websites posing as
if the victim is posting this information.
• People of all kind from nook and corner of the World, who come across this
information, start calling the victim at his/her residence and/or work place for many
filthy/obscene reasons.
• Some stalkers subscribe the e-mail account of the victim to innumerable obscene or
illegal sites because of which victim starts receiving such kind of unsolicited e-mails.
• Some stalkers keep on sending repeated e-mails asking for various kinds of favors or
threaten the victim.
• Stalkers follow their victim from board to board. They “hangout” on the same social
networking site as their victim, many times posting notes to the victim, making sure the
victim is aware that he/she is being followed.
• Stalkers will almost always make contact with their victims through email having friendly
or threatening content. The stalker many times uses multiple names when contacting
the victim.

Spreading Rumours Online
People sometime with a fake profile indulge in posting false information on social media, or
comments that could hurt others or spread rumours that may trigger panic or hurt religious
sentiments of other people resulting into clashes and even riots etc.
Spreading rumours online is a cybercrime and is a punishable offence.
As per IT Act of India, Publishing/circulation of Rumours, especially hurting religious sentiments
is a cybercrime and punishable offence.

Reporting Cybercrime
If any cybercrime happens, one must report it firstly to parents, school authorities and then to
police. The procedure for reporting cybercrimes is more or less the same as for reporting any
other kind of offence.