Abstract
Has varied and multiplied social media and its use has increased in various faccilities of life , accompanied by an increase in the percentage of electronic crimes ,especially electronic extortion crimes,which have become adanger threatening the iraqi family and threatening the occurrence of many family problems ,and it is notable for them to legislate a law that regulates this type of crimes in iraq despite its spread,weakness of the best authorities responsible for disclosure and investigation ,and the iraqi legislator had proposed in the 2011 draft information crimes law ,but it has not been enacted until now,and this is a form that should be addressed and addressed so the iraqi courts are still applying the provisions of the iraqi penal code no.1 and the law origins of customary criminal rulings no.1 of 1 on extortion crimes ,as a resulte of that ,the iraqi judge is still in possession of the provisions of the crimes of threat to those who commit the crime of extortion ,so the iraqi legislator must expedite the legislation of the information crime law and separate between the provisions of nosada that deal with the crimes of the matter in athief.