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The Trademark Office has also applied the eighth edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services, bringing the total to 45 classes as of 31st May 2003. According to the new classification, the local class 35, which used to include all service marks, divided into 11 service mark classes. Trademark applications for goods in class 33 remain unacceptable.
Trademark owners are advised to file Iranian applications based on a home or any other foreign registration. Otherwise, it must be mentioned in the application that no registration has been granted for the mark in home or foreign country. Filing the Iranian application based on a foreign registration will be the evidence of prior and continuous use of the trademark.
Five Billion US$ (as of 1996, much more now) worldwide Scam which has run since the early 1980's under Successive Governments of Nigeria. It is also referred to as "Advance Fee Fraud", "419 Fraud" (Four-One-Nine) after the relevant section of the Criminal Code of Nigeria, and "The Nigerian Connection" (mostly in Europe). However, it is usually called plain old "419" even by the Nigerians themselves.
The Scam operates as follows: the target receives an unsolicited fax, email, or letter often concerning Nigeria or another African nationcontaining either a money laundering or other illegal proposal OR you may receive a Legal and Legitimate business proposal by normal means. Common variations on the Scam include "overinvoiced" or "double invoiced" oil or other supply and service contracts where your Bad Guys want to get the overage out of Nigeria; crude oil and other commodity deals; a "bequest" left you in a will; "money cleaning" where your Bad Guy has a lot of currency that needs to be "chemically cleaned" before it can be used and he needs the cost of the chemicals; "spoof banks" where there is supposedly money in your name already on deposit; "paying" for a purchase with a check larger than the amount required and asking for change to be advanced; fake lottery 419; and ordering items and commodities off "trading" sites on the web and then cheating the seller. The variations of Advance Fee Fraud (419) are very creative and virtually endless.
I have found cyber crime statistics in filed of Hi-tech . The more cyber crimes increase, the more need for investigation increases as well. The statistic are empirical study on the base of 1500 survey conducted online.
Cyber Crime Statistics from the 2008 Internet Crime Report
In 2008, the Internet Crime Complaint Center received and processed over 200,000 complaints.
More than 86,000 of these complaints were processed and referred to various local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
Most of these were consumers and persons filing as private persons.
Total alleged dollar losses were more than $194 million.
Email and websites were the two primary mechanisms for fraud.
Although the total number of complaints decreased by approximately 7,000 complaints from 2005, the total dollar losses increased by $15 million.
The top frauds reported were auction fraud, non-delivery of items, check fraud, and credit card fraud.
Top contact mechanisms for perpetrators to victims were email (74%), web page (36%), and phone (18%) (there was some overlap).
Cyber Crime Statistics from the 12th Annual Computer Crime and Security Survey*
Between 2007 and 2008there was a net increase in IT budget spent on security.
Significantly, however, the percentage of IT budget spent on security awareness training was very low, with 71% of respondents saying less than 5% of the security budget was spent on awareness training, 22% saying less than 1% was spent on such training.
71% of respondents said their company has no external insurance to cover computer security incident losses.
90% of respondents said their company experienced a computer security incident in the past 12 months.
64% of losses were due to the actions of insiders at the company.
The top 3 types of attack, ranked by dollar losses, were:
financial fraud ($21.1 million)
viruses/worms/trojans ($8.4 million)
system penetration by outsiders ($6.8 million)
Cyber Crime Statistics from the Online Victimization of Youth, Five Years Later study*
Increasing numbers of children are being exposed to unwanted sexual materials online.
Reports of online sexual solicitations of youth decreased while reports of aggressive sexual solicitation of youth did not (perhaps indicating that some prevention and education measures may be working, while the most serious offenders may not be deterred).
Online child solicitation offenses are rarely reported to any authority.
Incidents of online harassment and bullying increased.
