RT Article
T1 Assessing the Practices of Online Counterfeit Currency Vendors
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 71
IS 6/7
SP 1696
OP 1717
A1 Holt, Thomas J. 1978-
A1 Lee, Jin R.
A1 O’Dell, Elizabeth
A2 Lee, Jin R.
A2 O’Dell, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1926663330
AB The development of the Internet and e-commerce tools have simplified the process of commercial exchange for both legal and illicit goods. The rise of online markets for illicit goods enable access to facilitatory resources for crime, such as firearms and counterfeit identity documents. Few have considered how these online markets facilitate the sale of counterfeit currencies for use in offline environments. The current study attempted to address this gap in the literature through a qualitative crime script analysis of counterfeit currency vendors operating on both the Open and Dark Web to understand the ways vendors advertise, actualize, and exit these transactions. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of the acquisition processes of facilitatory products are explored in detail.
K1 Cybercrime
K1 Crime script
K1 online illicit market
K1 counterfeit currency
K1 Dark Web
DO 10.1177/00111287221134047