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"inflame" the emotions and mood of the victims. The second type is "Online

harassment", which is the sending of unsolicited offensive messages
intended to annoy, alarm or abuse others. The third specific type is

"Cyberstalking", which defines repeated harassment through threats, false

accusations, defamation, slander, identity theft, and sexual language. The
next type is "Denigration", which refers to the publication of bad and false

rumours about the victim to denigrate their reputation and to socially isolate
them. It manifests itself through online dissemination which includes

distributing or posting gossip or rumours about a person whose reputation

or interpersonal relationships could be damaged. This form of cyberbullying
is committed without the victim's knowledge, and they are often made aware

of these actions by people close to them. The fifth type is characterised by
"Masquerade"/ "Impersonation" and is the appropriation and theft of the

victim's identity to damage their reputation. The perpetrator damages the
victim's self-image by what they post publicly. "Outing" is the sixth type

and is about publicly revealing personal and confidential information about

a person so that many people in cyberspace can see it. The penultimate type
is "Exclusion", which is the intentional exclusion of a person from an online

group. Exclusion usually takes place in a chat conversation within a group.

The last specific type of behaviour is "Trickery" and it means intentionally
deceiving or defrauding a person. Trickery is similar to Outing in that the

perpetrator tricks the victim into revealing personal or embarrassing
information through their naivety and then sharing it with others online

(Aune, 2009, p. 7).

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