What's the point of harassment?

Harassment is a crime that integrates two distinct elements: the use of electronic communications as such as e-mail or instant messaging and forms of harassment, considered as criminal harassment.

Cyberstalkers depend on Internet offers recognition to your harassment victim anonymity to avoid. In General, a Cyberstalker focuses on a specific victim, including contacting messages with an element of threat as described in the SearchSecurity.com Cyberstalker.

Types

Harassment fall into three basic types.

Love obsession with harassment, the Cyberstalker lives in a world of fantasy and believes that the victim is secretly love, had, as described at wiredsafety.org. Hate vendetta cyberstalking intends Cyberstalker maliciously affect the targeted victim and communicated to do so by E-mail, instant messaging and sometimes the Forum news and bulletin boards. The third type of cyberstalking is corporate cyberstalking, in most cases, includes one or more of the staff company targeting a person but must be a single cyberstalking, a company in some cases.

Repetitive

One of the features of the business of cyberstalking is repetition.

Harassment occurs on an interval in which the Cyberstalker repeatedly trying to cause the victim's fate. Some laws must specify two or more contacts to cyberstalking include cycle of events and these contacts should be consistent with a repetitive model.

Obsession

While not required any effects of the Cyberharcèlemen element

t include not exceptionally CYberstalking cases obsession over a part of Cyberstalker. The victim to the authorities that it is the situation in each case, must the victim Lecyberstalker a particularly clear warning to the code of conduct and let alone the victim no longer provide. Cyberstalkers which can have a real driving obsession despite clear warnings to stop. These persons violates the selected orders, probation violent and even sacrificing employment still victim of harassment by electronic means.

Harassment

Stalking, is usually as described on the website of the Department of Justice, as threatening or harassing behavior.

Laws, the more harassment that set to qualify as harassment, the author must be a credible threat to commit violence against the targeted victim. However in some cases the law considers the fact that the harassment in the presence of an implicit; Threats and harassment to threats include the victim but to characterize the victim's family, in other cases, the law extended the circumstances.

Progression

Internet Valley walking events are progressions of course action of real world stalking include before the harassment to electronic media.

On the other hand, the opposite may be true: harassment began a series of behaviors by e-Mail or instant messaging to a real criminal may result harassment can include on the victim, actual physical violence as described in the SearchSecurity.com.

Response

For the victims of the Cyberstalker, the author, ISPs)

(ISP) courses provides the action, followed by the victim statement FAI and change name online. The combination of these two approaches in 2001 and 2002 aufgelöSt according to SearchSecurity.com 80 percent of cases of cyberstalking.