Toward a Rational Choice Process Theory of Internet Scamming: The Offender’s Perspective

Internet fraud scam is a crime enabled by the Internet to swindle Internet users. The global costs of these scams are in the billions of US dollars. Existing research suggests that scammers maximize their economic gain. Although this is a plausible explanation, since the idea of the scam is to fool...

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Autor principal: Siponen, Mikko (Autor)
Otros Autores: Tambe Ebot, Alain Claude
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2014
En:Año: 2014
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