CRIM 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Routine Activity Theory, Fraud, Identity Theft
21 Feb 2018
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Cybercrime, routine activity theory & situational crime prevention. As many as 9 million americans have their identities stolen every year. The median cost to victims of identity theft in the us is per victim. 6. 6% of all us households included a victim of one or more types of identity theft (reyns, 2013). In the uk, 1. 7 million people are a ected, with a estimated overall cost of . 7 billion pounds (or 1,000 pounds per stolen identity). Identity theft = fraud or other unlawful activity where identity of a victim is used as a target without the victim"s consent (or knowledge). Examples of identity theft include credit card fraud, bank fraud, document fraud. With identity theft, the o ender and victim seldom meet face-to-face . Common methods of stealing identity include skimming, hacking, phishing, or theft of actual documents. Recently, more and more identity theft involves accessing the victim"s personal information via the internet (reyns, 2013).
