257BComputer-related fraud

257B Computer-related fraud

*[Section 257B Inserted by No. 13 of 1990, s. 3 ]*A person who, with intent to defraud –

(a) destroys, damages, erases, alters or otherwise manipulates data stored in, or used in connection with, a computer; or

(b) introduces into, or records or stores in, a computer or system of computers by any means data for the purpose of –

(i) destroying, damaging, erasing or altering other data stored in that computer or that system of computers; or

(ii) interfering with, interrupting or obstructing the lawful use of that computer or that system of computers or the data stored in that computer or system of computers; or

(c) otherwise uses a computer –

is guilty of a crime.

Charge:  Computer-related fraud.