Forged in the Context of Information and Communication Technologies

oming to the era of information and communication technology, communities have faced with many challenges. Concurrent with the development of tools and techniques of social life, we have faced with the significant developments in the field of committing crimes. Today we are facing with new forms of crimes of gorging in cyber space that are committed by professional offenders by using technical solutions and a lot of scientific and practical skills are needed to combat with them. Electronic forgery at first was proposed under the Article 68 of EC law in 1382 and subsequently with the approval of the Article 6 of the computer crimes in 1388 it was annexed to the Islamic Penal Code as one of the offenses of technical crimes. This crime in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) can be achieved by using technological methods and hence the accuracy and data integrity of the massage as a fundamental pillar of the information society will be undermined. This issue will easily shake the public peace and trust to the social foundations. This article attempts to explain and identify the nature of this crime compared with the traditional fabrication and expressing the features and qualities of technical methods that criminals can commit as the operation of crime of forging in the cyber space and being familiar with it will help the legal community in analyzing the practical and technical forms of committing this crime.