Facebook is a social media that almost all the people of the world know him, this friendship website has become the world's largest friendship site, almost all people are hypnotized with facebook.
The use of facebook world diverse and depending on the age of the wearer, ranging from rah-rah, business, courtship, lectures, looking for friends, crime, up to just that. This proves facebook is like a virus that has infected almost throughout the world community.
Crime Via Facebook
The more sophisticated technology that develops in today's life, the more sophisticated and easy it evolves. While sitting in the room accessing the internet crime can be disseminated in order to find prey that can be utilized.
Through the facebook media, various crimes are now taking place, ranging from low-level crimes, to the highest crime, murder.
One of the commonly used crime modes is to send a love letter to a female "Facebooker", posing as a soldier, a pilot, or a lawyer. Fraudsters usually use photos of white strangers. After the victim is lulled by his ragged seduction, the offender will launch an action so that in the name of love, the clerk sends money on various grounds, from lending to joint business capital. After earning money, "the idol of the heart" disappears.
There are also those who claim to be soldiers from foreign countries who are looking for partners in order to transfer large amounts of state money. In the end, the fraudster asks for remittances as an administrative fee or the like. Two years ago, Polda Metro Jaya arrested Nigerian citizens who managed to gain billions of dollars from fraudulent acts on Facebook by posing as British soldiers.
The criminals we often hear through facebook are robbery, murder, rape, fraud, taking over someone else's facebook account (hacking), using fake identity on facebook, and fraud by using a new app.
According to a note from a study quoted by News Tank (01/04) for the British territory, sexual crimes using Facebook increased over the past 4 years.
Such sexual crimes include kidnappings that result in rape and pedophiles with the majority of underage victims. In 2009, crime reports received by the police accounted for 1642 cases.
Of these, as many as 1395 victims raped and sexually abused were on average aged at that 16 years. The number continues to increase from year to year. The increase from 22 percent in 2009 to 117 percent until the end of 2012, (Mardeka.com)
Professor Andy Phippen from Plymouth University found statistics that nearly 40 percent of the victims were students and they all fell victim to the deceitful perpetrators who used the Facebook service.
Be Careful Using Facebook
Of the various crimes that occur through facebook account, then we as users (facebookers) facebook must be careful, do not use facebook as a means of silaturrahmi but turned into a catastrophe in our lives.
To keep us from becoming a victim, then we as facebook users should pay attention to some things in preventing the crime, that is by always updating the password periodically, do not like to upload photos that are personal, do not display the phone number, do not like to receive friend requests from people which is unknown, and be careful in updating the status.
When a pleasure becomes a disaster, it is our fatal carelessness. So from now on, do not ever trust someone who we do not know, but be wary, so we do not regret a moment. Good and bad, as well as the profit and the loss we use facebook it depends on ourselves, and faith is very influential.