INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION ON COMBATING CYBERCRIME: THE STRATEGY OF INTERPOL GLOBAL COMPLEX FOR INNOVATION (IGCI) IN ARRESTING NIGERIAN CRIMINAL OF ONLINE SCAM IN 2016

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Title: International Criminal Police Organization on Combating Cybercrime: The Strategy of INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Arresting Nigerian Criminal of Online Scam in 2016 The Internet is one of the impacts of the development of TIC in the era of globalization. The ease of utilizing the Internet that can be accessed by anyone makes the human life easier. In fact, people and the Internet are inseparable. With so many benefits over the sophistication of the Internet, basically the Internet also has a downside that if humans cannot control themselves and utilize the Internet wisely, it will lead them to commit something that can harm any other Internet users, which is crime on virtual world (cybercrime). The case of Nigeria 419 is one of the evidences that crime can happen on the Internet. The Internet is essentially borderless, accessible to anyone with any interest in order to fulfill their interests for the financial purpose illegally. With various forms of criminal scams, individual or group carry out their actions through countries transnationally. The crime known as transnational organized crime is a form of crime that is quite rampant on the Internet and quite difficult to trace consider that the criminals must be high skilled in utilizing the Internet and hiding their identity. Therefore, the existence of ICPO-INTERPOL in handling any transnational crime is expected to play an important role in eradicating this case. INTERPOL in the collaboration among the police officers, law enforcement agencies and the private sector in arresting a criminal of Nigeria 419 for a total of $ 60 million fraud in 2016. With that strategy, INTERPOL successfully conducted the operation with the assistance of the EFCC, Trend Micro and Fortinet