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Cybercrimes Act, 2020 (Act No. 19 of 2020)

Chapter 2 : Cybercrimes, Malicious Communications, Sentencing and Orders to Protect Complainants from Harmful Effect of Malicious Communications

Part I : Cybercrimes

8. Cyber fraud

 

Any person who unlawfully and with the intention to defraud makes a misrepresentation—

(a) by means of data or a computer program; or
(b) through any interference with data or a computer program as contemplated in section 5(2)(a), (b) or (e) or interference with a computer data storage medium or a computer system as contemplated in section 6(2)(a),

which causes actual or potential prejudice to another person, is guilty of the offence of cyber fraud.