Conceptual Literature

Rapid technology advancements have opened up a wide range of new options

and productive sources for businesses of all sizes. The internet has been a
major driver of technological advancement. The internet has made the globe
smaller by bringing far-off items closer together. The internet has evolved into a
national resource and is now essential to maintaining overall national security.
But along with these novel risks, such as cybercrime, came new technologies.
Cybercrime is any crime that involves the use of a computer, such as hacking,
spamming, phishing, etc. Cybercrimes are the latest and the most
sophisticated problem in the digital world. Cybercrime varies from computer
fraud, unauthorized hacking, forgery, infringements of privacy, online
gambling, propagation of harmful content, phishing, computer viruses,
falsification of prostitution, theft, espionage, copyright infringement, financial
crimes, sale of illegal articles, pornography, intellectual property crime, e-mail
spoofing, cyber defamation, and cyberstalking. The study's goals were to
identify different types of cybercrimes committed on social media, look at how
these crimes affect the safety of these platforms, and research how these
crimes affect social media safety.
Since many of us have been confined to our homes to wait out the pandemic of
COVID-19, social media has become more crucial than ever. Our social media
feeds have made us feel connected, informed, or just plain funny, whether
we've used them to pass the time or interact with friends and family. Sadly, it
has also been used as a tool to disseminate rumors, advertise scams, and,
more recently, steal data from COVID vaccination cards.
The goal of the study is to gain a better understanding of the relationships
between the usage of online crime prevention techniques and prior
victimization, perceptions of the prevalence of cybercrime, and perceptions of
the harm caused by cybercrime. It aims to add to the corpus of research that
has established the limited impact of knowledge-based crime prevention
education in reducing victimization.