Summary

Real case studies on Internet fraud written by real fraud examiners

Internet Fraud Casebook: The World Wide Web of Deceit is a one-of-a-kind collection of actual cases written by the fraud examiners who investigated them. These stories were hand-selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining picture of the many types of Internet fraud in varied industries throughout the world.

This book reveals the dangers of Internet fraud and the measures that can be taken to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Choice Review

Each of this book's 41 chapters describes an Internet-related fraud in a brief vignette format. All these case studies are written in the first person by the individual fraud investigator involved. Each study relates the background of the fraud, the people involved, the investigator's role in solving the case, and usually what legal action concluded the case. Following this description, each study provides a "Lessons Learned" summary, a "Recommendations to Prevent Future Occurrences" list, and a brief author biography. Given the many authors and diversity of cases ("The Broken Nest Egg," "The eBay Fraud Brothers," "Wire Transfers from Nowhere," etc.), the consistency of each chapter's description and format reflects an extraordinary editing job by Wells and his staff. Though most cases occurred in the US, there are a number of international ones too, e.g., in such noted fraud-originating countries as Russia and Nigeria. This book will have broad appeal to anyone interested in gaining a better perspective of how inventive and opportunistic criminals are in exploiting the Internet to commit fraud. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and professionals/practitioners. E. M. Aupperle emeritus, University of Michigan