The crime committed in the case of cybercrime is generally described as electronic fraud. The digital code provides for penalties that apply, depending on the circumstances, to the perpetrators and accomplices of cybercrime

The digital code defines fraud as “the act, either by the use of a false name or false quality, or by the use of manoeuvre, to deceive and determine a natural or legal person thus, to its detriment or to the detriment of a third party, to deliver funds, securities or any property, to provide a service or to consent to an act effecting an exculpatory obligation.” Title X of the Digital Code, entitled “Common law offenses committed online”, provides more information on electronic fraud. Article 566 describes the offence and sets out the basics of repression.

Thus, “anyone who, either by using false names or false qualities, or by using any fraudulent means, obtains or delivers goods and securities through a computer system or an electronic communication network and has by any of these means defrauded all or part of someone else's wealth is punished by An imprisonment of two (02) years to seven (07) years and a fine equal to five times the value in question, but not less than one million (1,000,000) CFA francs.” The hunt against cybercriminals in Benin shows spectacular figures both in terms of the number of people arrested and convicted, and the resulting financial harm