1. Money – It’s the main reason for crime in general. In impoverished districts rife with wage inequality, race discrimination, and high unemployment rates, people may turn to cybercrime to make ends meet, though there is a significant percentage of cybercriminals who spend their ill-gotten gains on maintaining status like buying luxury items like jewelry and expensive cars. Any demographic or socioeconomic class are capable of cybercrime.
  2. Recognition – There’s something about power, fame, and money that brings out the worst in people. Though I would argue Edward Snowden did something good to reveal the extent of the NSA’s espionage into questionable matters.
  3. Revenge – The fact that we live in a world where “revenge porn” is a thing dims my hope in humanity. There’s always someone asking, “Why did she do those videos in the first place?” Never mind that revenge porn is often used as collateral on victims who are sexually assaulted, like in the explosive ongoing Diddy indictment.
  4. Political – If you are still on Twitter (I will NOT call it X), you have probably seen the bot accounts. Often these are sockpuppet accounts made by Russian hackers to push certain political affiliations. It is not worth responding to these things because it’s likely just a botnet.
  5. Boredom – You ever been so bored that you committed a crime? Is that what happens to rich, famous, powerful people? They get bored of being rich and need to do something highly illegal to feel joy in life? I can’t really understand this one. You have to have a pretty flawed moral compass if you’ve exhausted any other hobby besides crime.
  6. Entertainment – This ties into boredom. Again, I don’t how you can get so bored you commit cybercrime. How efficient is the Reddit to Dark Web Fraud pipeline?
  7. Many reasons – I’m too scared of jail to result to a life of cybercrime. I also don’t like being a horrible human being. I’m not even mean in video games.