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This 8 page paper examines the issue of credit card fraud, and highlights the extent of this growing economic problem. This paper presents generalized information on the subject as well as information about computer credit card fraud as it specifically relates to Australia and New South Wales. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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for a variety of economic and political reasons. However, online credit card fraud is a far different reality than regular credit card fraud from an investigative perspective. Therefore,
understanding the reasons for the differences in how these crimes are investigated provides insight into the inherently different nature of the crimes themselves.
Because of the Internet, there are a vast number of businesses that now sell globally (Brunker, 2004). Therefore, markets are no longer restricted to those that are
local, but are instead worldwide in their scope (Brunker, 2004). However, in its wake credit card fraud has also proliferated on the Internet, and has often been considered by
many to be the "perfect" crime (Brunker, 2004). Prosecutions of such crimes have been minimal at best, thus resulting in credit card fraud as an attractive proposition for even
more criminals (Brunker, 2004). Headlines were made when, only recently, a teenager in Russia was credited/accused of heisting literally thousands of
credit cards from the Universe Web site (Brunker, 2004). Amazon.com also recently announced that they uncovered a plot by Russian hackers to defraud a number of e-merchants out of
nearly $70,000 using stolen credit card information (Brunker, 2004). Clearly, this is not a small-stakes game, but a potentially profitable enterprise with very low risk (Brunker, 2004). While
these plots have made news thanks to being uncovered, the vast majority of online credit card fraud goes unresolved and unpunished (Brunker, 2004).
One of the main reasons that credit card fraud is proliferating is that because outside of the United States, address verification systems that compare billing address information to
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