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Abstract
This article highlights the types of cybercrime, their functions, the psychological, physical, and economic harm they cause to individuals, their consequences, the economic and social context of public policy, digital criminals that infringe on societal rights and freedoms, as well as distinctions between fraud and extortion in criminal law, including their defining signs and elements.
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