Financial crime is a trillion-dollar industry that is likely to continue to grow exponentially unless new strategies of prevention and control can be developed. This book covers a wide range of topics related to financial crime commission, victimization, prevention, and control. The chapters included in this book closely examine cyber-victimization in their investigation of online fraud schemes that have resulted in new categories of crime victims as the result of identity theft, romance fraud schemes, phishing, ransomware, and other technology-enabled online fraud strategies. This book also offers new strategies for both financial crime prevention and financial crime control designed to reduce both offending and victimization. It will be a great resource for researchers and students of Criminology, Sociology, Law, and Information Technology.

The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Victims & Offenders.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 1. The Dynamics of Business, Cybersecurity and Cyber-Victimization: Foregrounding the Internal Guardian in Prevention 2. Phishing Evolves: Analyzing the Enduring Cybercrime 3. Online Fraud Victimization in China: A Case Study of Baidu Tieba 4. Interrelationship between Bitcoin, Ransomware, and Terrorist Activities: Criminal Opportunity Assessment via Cyber-Routine Activities Theoretical Framework 5. The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes 6. The Distillation of National Crime Data into A Plan for Elderly Fraud Prevention: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of U.S. Postal Inspection Service Cases of Fraud against the Elderly 7. Organized Crime as Financial Crime: The Nature of Organized Crime as Reflected in Prosecutions and Research 8. Preventing Identity Theft: Perspectives on Technological Solutions from Industry Insiders 9. Forecasting Identity Theft Victims: Analyzing Characteristics and Preventive Actions through Machine Learning Approaches 10. The Identification of a Model Victim for Social Engineering: A Qualitative Analysis