Headlines- False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
- On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
- Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
- Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
- It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
- If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
- It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
- Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
- AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
- Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
- One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
- Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.
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Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon
The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit