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Article: Feature: Computer crime faces computer forensics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 7, 2002
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Feature: Computer crime faces computer forensics
HONG KONG, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- One day, while Jane, a 13-year- old
girl in Hong Kong, was surfing on the Internet, she heard a cuckoo
call from her computer - a stranger who said he was a 16- year-old
boy nicknamed Tom was inviting her to chat over the ICQ.
Unbeknownst to Jane, Tom was, in fact, a middle-aged man. Soon
Jane and Tom became ICQ friends and they chatted quite regularly
over the Internet. One day Tom asked Jane out and they met.
Unfortunately Jane was raped.
Rape, however horrible it may be, is not an unusual crime,
according to the police here, but the story about Jane illustrates
how criminals use the internet, and in ...