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Answer of What is Computer Crime? and What is Embezzlement?

Answer of What is Computer Crime? and What is Embezzlement?

by Antara Biswas -
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Computer Crime: The use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy is called Computer Crime. Cybercrime is also called computer crime.

Embezzlement: 

Embezzlement is one kind of crime. It is also known as employee theft, is the act of someone wrongfully appropriating funds that have been entrusted to their care but which are owned by someone else. The most common embezzlement is by employees, but others with fiduciary responsibility can also be charged with embezzlement.

Embezzlement is a specific type of fraud, which is defined as a "knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment." For example, accounting embezzlement is the manipulation of accounting records to hide the theft of funds. Embezzlement can be prosecuted as criminal fraud or civil fraud. In the case of civil fraud, the employer can bring a lawsuit against the employee.