Computer Crime Resource

The Kennebunkport Police Department encourages citizens to report computer crime. Computer crimes are those in which a computer is used as an instrument in committing, or assisting in the commissison of a crime or in which the computer is a target of a criminal act.

Crimes involving computers include, but are not limited to:

•Harassing Email or Instant Messages

•Theft/Fraud, including auction fraud, ponzi schemes, and Nigerian fraud schemes

• Identity Theft, Phishing

•Criminal Invasion of Computer Privacy

•Soliciting a Child by a computer to Commit a Prohibited Act

•Criminal Threatening