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December 28, 2010: "Phishing, Child Pornography and Advance Fee Fraud internet. Hypotheses of cyber crime and its perpetrators. "
New research published by Faber organizational innovation, commissioned by the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Security and Justice.
"Phishing, Child Pornography and Advance Fee Fraud internet. Hypotheses of cyber crime and its perpetrators, "describes the assumptions about offender characteristics and modus operandi of cyber crime is defined as" Internet-related crime. The result consists of process descriptions (modus operandi) of alleged criminal practices, and network descriptions of possible offenders in co-operating. The various activities of the process descriptions and the various roles offender where possible hypotheses about their appearance provided.
The report has a strong functional bias. It is especially looking for clues for the detection of certain forms of cybercrime. The relevance and thus the question of the research arises from the need for greater understanding of the nature of the dark number of cyber crime and the characteristics of responsible "unknown offenders. It is assumed that research records, literature and minds of people "all kinds of knowledge may be inferred that, if it is cumulative, leading to both actual and presumed characteristics of how cyber crime is committed and who are involved. To avoid known facts would quickly be seen as representative of the unknown or unrecorded unknown offenders, has worked with hypotheses. With the central question: "What assumptions about characteristics of perpetrators of cybercrime and crimes committed by them, may serve as a basis for influencing, obstructing or investigation?" Hypotheses are not ends in themselves but exist to serve the different ways of influence of cyber crime. Ranging from policy development to strategic choices in which one often must rely on relatively vague notions about what else might be more going on than the police or regulators became known, to erect barriers against alleged criminal practices. The breadth of Internet-related crime is framed within the research by focusing on phishing, child pornography and advance fee fraud. Three different forms with a common effect they heavily taxed society in terms of psychological and / or property damage. Inherent in the purpose and character of the research, this report is not "definitive." In the first place because a hypothesis is actually meant to be tested. This also distinguishes hypotheses opinions. Second, because the insights factual and associative hypotheses have led to the still limited and fragmentary. In that sense it is a beginning rather than a completed result. Third, because the Internet and thus the related hypotheses on cybercrime, constantly evolving.
The research report, which the report has been commissioned by the National Infrastructure CyberCrime program (part of the Ministry of Econmische cases) and the Research and Documentation Centre (part of the Ministry of Security and Justice).
Wyns Faber, Sjoerd Mostert, Jelmer Faber, Noor Merrifield, (2010), Phishing, Child Pornography and Advance Fee Fraud internet. Hypotheses of cyber crime and its perpetrators, Oss: Faber organizational innovation