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Contributor [1]
Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 02:00
Sub-Title: 
A Balancing Act Feature
Categories: 
Internet & technology [2]
Issue Number: 
134 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Africa is widely perceived as a hotbed of cyber-crime based on the proliferation of 419 scam e-mails but the reality is not as it might appear. Mark Davies of BusyInternet goes through the available figures and talks about his own experience of crime as a cyber-café owner.

Category: 
ICT, Media & Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/internet/18621 [5]

Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/19582

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