Online shopping division added to fight rising internet fraud

To deal with a sharp rise in internet fraud, an online shopping division has been established as part of the Office of the Judicial Administration Commission. The office was officially created Tuesday having been published in The Royal Gazette on Monday. The OJAC observe that the world lives more and more online, and the Covid-19 pandemic has only further fueled online growth, with the predictable results of a rise in online fraud.

Instagram and Facebook are the top sources for online fraud but about 2000 complaints are filed each month overall on a hotline run by the Digital Economy and Society. The OJAC decided with this amount of caseloads, a separate department was needed to handle online shopping complaints.

Now that the online shopping division has been launched, all relevant pending cases will be handed over to the department to assist victims who have fallen prey to online