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Vocabulary by Topic

A short passage about transnational internet crime including a vocabulary list.

As the internet has spread across national borders and connected the world, transnational crime has increased.

Fraud, the crime of getting money from people by tricking them or lying to them, is perhaps the most common internet crime.

One kind of fraud is identity theft or phishing.

Computer hackers send a victim an email attachment or have them download a Trojan horse virus which enables them to gain access to a victim’s computer.

Once the virus is active on the victim’s computer, the hackers monitor the victim’s online banking transactions and use this information to withdraw money from their bank account.

Another way that the crime of fraud is perpetrated is by installing fake card slots on an ATM.

The PIN number of card holders' is then stolen by tiny skimmers inside the slots.

Taiwanese phone scam gangs have also used call centers in Thailand as a base to call Chinese people with credit cards in countries around Asia and, posing as police, deceive and threaten them and convince them to deposit money into their bank account. (Photo on right of some foreign hackers caught in Thailand).

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spread - to gradually cover a larger and larer area or number of people กระจายไปทั่ว, แพร่กระจาย
national - of a certain country
transnational - involving more than one country; present in more than one country ข้ามชาติ
fraud - the crime of gaining money by tricking people or lieing to them การโกง การตุ้มตุ๋น การหลอกลวง การปลอมแปลง การฉ้อโกง (See Wikipedia)
identity - who a person is (usually given most simply by their name), also all the things that make a person who they are and different from other people (gender, race, language, nationality, etc...)
theft - dishonestly taking something which belongs to someone else and keeping it การลักขโมย
identity theft- a crime of fraud in which someone uses another person's name (identity) to get access to their money or assets or to take out loans or purchase things using their name (See Wikipedia)
phishing - same as "identity theft" above
hacker - a computer programmer who figures out how to get around computer security technology and enter other computers secretly and illegally to steal or change information
hacking - breaking into a computer system in order to get secret information การแฮ็คข้อมูล (การโจรกรรมข้อมูลทางคอมพิวเตอร์) (See Wikipedia)
victim - someone who has been harmed, injured or killed as the result of a crime เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย
email attachment - some item such as a report (.doc, .pdf file), music or video that comes with an email and can be downloaded separately if the person it was sent to wishes
Trojan horse - a harmful computer program that people are tricked into accepting onto their computer (See Wikipedia)
virus - computer virus, a bad computer that copies itselfs in order to harm a computer (See Wikipedia)
gain access - the ability to enter a building or place การเข้าสู่
active - working, operating, doing its job
monitor - watch something to see what is happening and keep track of it ตรวจ, ติดตาม, เฝ้าสังเกต
online - connected to the internet
transaction - a business dealing การติดต่อทางธุรกิจ
withdraw - to take money out of a bank account ถอนเงินจากธนาคาร
perpetrated - did something harmful, illegal or dishonest ทำเรื่องเลวร้าย
fake - not the real thing or genuine, made to look like something real in order to trick people ปลอม
slot - a long narrow hole that you fit something into (like an ATM card)
PIN number - the secret number (password) entered into an ATM to access your bank account
skimmer - the part of a machine where an id card passes through to give information (place where you stick your ATM card) เครื่องอ่านข้อมูล
scam - a tricky dishonest plan to get money from people กลโกง, แผนร้าย
call centers - a large office with workers receiving and making phone calls for some business purpose, for example: debt collection, telemarketing sales, answering service, etc (See Wikipedia)
base - a place from where an activity can be planned and managed ฐานที่มั่น
credit - loans
credit card - a plastic card used to buy things with, the money is loaned to the credit card holder until they pay it back (See Wikipedia)
posing - pretending to be something วางท่า
deceive - to persuade someone that something false is the truth หลอก
threaten - telling someone that you will harm them, if they do not do what you tell them to do
convince - saying things to make a person believe or do something
deposit - putting money into a bank account เงินฝาก

Experiment:  The following MP3 pronounces each word or phrase above both quickly and very slowly so the student can hear every sound, particularly the final consonant which is difficult for Thai speakers to master because the Thai language has only a few consonants ending syllables:  

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