External offenders
External offenders
External white-collar offenders are individuals who have legitimate access to premises and systems that they use to commit and conceal financial crime harming other individuals and organizations online. This chapter presents three case studies of external white-collar offenders online. The first case study is concerned with movie piracy, where the perpetrator was able to commit financial crime in terms of advertising revenues from illegal access to the software platform Popcorn Time. The second case study is concerned with fraud against the foreign aid organization, Norfund, where the perpetrator used the method of business email compromise to pretend to be the legitimate recipient of foreign aid funds. The third case study is concerned with cryptocurrency crime. This chapter also presents the general issue of chief executive officer (CEO) fraud, where the external offender pretends to be head of the organization asking for transfer of funds out of the organization.
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Hamerton, Christopher
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Gottschalk, Petter
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6 October 2021
Hamerton, Christopher
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Gottschalk, Petter
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Hamerton, Christopher and Gottschalk, Petter
(2021)
External offenders.
In,
White-Collar Crime Online: Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk.
1 ed.
London.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82132-6_4).
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External white-collar offenders are individuals who have legitimate access to premises and systems that they use to commit and conceal financial crime harming other individuals and organizations online. This chapter presents three case studies of external white-collar offenders online. The first case study is concerned with movie piracy, where the perpetrator was able to commit financial crime in terms of advertising revenues from illegal access to the software platform Popcorn Time. The second case study is concerned with fraud against the foreign aid organization, Norfund, where the perpetrator used the method of business email compromise to pretend to be the legitimate recipient of foreign aid funds. The third case study is concerned with cryptocurrency crime. This chapter also presents the general issue of chief executive officer (CEO) fraud, where the external offender pretends to be head of the organization asking for transfer of funds out of the organization.
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Published date: 6 October 2021
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