How does cyber technology impact interactions between offenders and victims?

Cyber technology impacts interactions between offenders and victims in a significant amount of ways. Cyber technology offers the ability to reach a large amount of people. In this case offenders are able to reach a large pool of potential victims. This can be through any online platforms that people are frequently visiting. Social media is a major source that offenders will reside to attack victims. The anonymity and ability to use alias names is a feature offered that masks the identities of offenders. This makes it difficult for legislation, law enforcement, and prosecutors to identify and track the abusers.  The difficulty in compromising anonymity can ignite fear for victims and social users in general.  The availability and accessibility of the internet is operated at anytime, therefore offenders have immediate access and continuous access to potential victims. This 24 / 7 system allows for persistent cyber stalking and cyber harassments. Online scams is another major effect between offenders and victims through cyber technology. The evolution technology has made it easier for offenders to reach potential victims because of the creativity of catching people. The ability to disguise scams as reliable information is more than ever tough to catch. Cyber technology has also introduced many new forms of reaching victims such as identity theft cyberbullying, and more. Identity theft and fraud is a consistent and primary offense that offenders taking advantage of. Offenders can easilty obtain someones card and purchase merchandise under an alias account and be undetected if careful enough. The ability to communicate is another way that offenders and quickly initial contact with potential victims. It is various social media platforms that can be used to do this. Even though victims can block these people, there is certain ways around to still reaching them such as different accounts created or third party access. The third party method ties into the intent of causing harassment to a person because it shows that the the stalker or harasser is aware of their actions and does not want to be identified; therefore they do it through other people; this ties back into anonymity so there it proves intent to cause harm which law enforcement and prosecutors can use as evidence once the person is identified.