Cybercrimes Act, 2020 (Act No. 19 of 2020)Chapter 2 : Cybercrimes, Malicious Communications, Sentencing and Orders to Protect Complainants from Harmful Effect of Malicious CommunicationsPart I : Cybercrimes8. 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.