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Wire Fraud Wire fraud other known as code 18 U.S.C. § 1343 prohibits the use of interstate wire communication to commit or further a fraudulent scheme to obtain money or any sort of property. Persons convicted can face severe punishment ranging from fines or imprisonment up to twenty years or both and the punishment can be even more severe if the fraud affects a financial institution. The federal Wire Fraud Act provides that any artifice to defraud by means of wire or other electronic communications (such as radio or television) in foreign or interstate commerce is a crime

Cyberbullying Cyberbullying occurs when someone uses any kind of electronic device to inflict emotional or mental abuse. Bullying by use of any electronic device through means including, but not limited to, e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pagers, online games, and websites. The bullying can be but not limited to teasing, lies, rumors, rude/mean comments, and threats. It has been come increasingly more popular with teens and has been broken down into many categories such as "trolling" and hate "raids". Their is little action law enforcement can take in most states unless it is predatory behavior however schools have been known to onterfer and try to stop the bullying. cyberbullying can be the target of one person or a group of people.

Cyberstalking Cyberstalking is pretty similar to cyberbullying but it involves publicly viewed threats and harassment over the Internet, protecting the perpetrator behind a disguise of anonymity. The primary difference is cyberstalking takes place over an extended period of time where cyberbullying can be one isolated incidentor if repeated through a series of incidents within a shorter period of time. Cyberstalking is often committed by one perpetrator where the victim of cyberbullying can be the target of one person or a group. Cyberstaling is iften accompanied by real life stalking and it is broken down into four categories of stalkers. Recent laws have come about to prevent and cpmat the behavior but enforcing the laws has proven to be challenging.