Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes That Bite

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This one-of-a-kind collection consists of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive picture of the many types of computer fraud how they are investigated, across industries and throughout the world. Topics included are email fraud, on-line auction fraud, security breaches, counterfeiting, and others. COMPUTER FRAUD CASEBOOK: The Bytes That Bite Contents Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Just What the Doctor Ordered Pills and Abuse Shut Him Down This Is Not a Game Death Threats Finally Behind Bars About the Author Chapter 2: Of Botnets and Bagels: Vaccinating the Hospital against Cybercrime The Virus Searching for a Cure On the Mend About the Authors Chapter 3: Pandora’s Box The Initial Meeting The Investigation Opening Pandora’s Box Pandora’s Modus Operandi Out With the Old, In With the New About the Author Chapter 4: Mail-Order Fraud Toying with Human Emotion Real Love Going After Lover Boy Lovers’ Protocol Who Said Making Crime Pay was Cheap? About the Author Chapter 5: Lancelot Gone Missing Lancelot to the Rescue Gone Missing How Dead Men Talk Beware of the Chat Room Flirt About the Authors Chapter 6: Double Trouble License to Build Seeing Double The Investigation The Whole Truth About the Author Chapter 7: Unimaginable Wealth The Ponzi of Cyberspace If It’s Too Good to Be True... Faceless Fraud About the Author Chapter 8: Hacked Reality Check Shoddy Security Card-Carrying Crooks Facing Legal Action Elusive Hackers The Incompetence Within The Canadian Regulators’ Investigation About the Author Chapter 9: Bad Education Anonymous Revelation A Deceitful Donation The Dirt Is in the Details About the Author Chapter 10: If Only His Nose Could Grow Don’t Tell Me What I Won’t Find The Intimidation Factor No Concept of Truth About the Author Chapter 11: Keeping Up with the Jamesons The Tip of the Iceberg No Stone Left Unturned Piecing It Together A Case of Stolen Identities About the Author Chapter 12: Imaginary Satellites Suspect Satellites Hit with an Audit Think Before You Fabricate Another Trick Up the Sleeve About the Author Chapter 13: Never Pass Your Password Information Leak Acting Fast A Bitter End Acting Alone About the Authors Chapter 14: Why Computers and Meth Don’t Mix Trailer Treasure Meth and Motels First Clyde, Then Bonnie Time to Face the Music About the Author Chapter 15: Fishing in Dangerous Waters Don’t Write Checks You Can’t Cash Check, Please Breakdown of the Scheme Agent Orange? About the Author Chapter 16: The Man Who Told on Himself Isn’t Greed Grand? Damaged Goods Jurisdictional Limbo About the Authors Chapter 17: Triple Threat Scheme One Thinking Outside the Box Scheme Two Scheme Three About the Author Chapter 18: Swiped We’re Going to Overtime See You in Court About the Author Chapter 19: Have Computer, Will Video About the Author Chapter 20: Server, We Have a Problem Server Down A Silent Attacker Escape Into a Trap Corporate Espionage or Petty Revenge? About the Author Chapter 21: Do It for the Kids A Snake in the Grass Spread Thin The Road to Coming Clean One Admission Please Expelled About the Author Chapter 22: Moving Money A $40,000 Dilemma Impotent Controls Forge Ahead About the Author Chapter 23: Operation: Overnight Identity Theft The Prosecutor’s Office A ‘‘Winner’’ of a Case The Chase No Honor Amongst Friends and Thieves Another Thief and a Lucky Break You Can Run, but You Can’t Hide Do the Crime, Pay the Time About the Author Chapter 24: The Karma of Fraud The Falling Dollar Big Loss Leads to Big Investigation Unjust Bonuses The Enlightened Way Out About the Authors Chapter 25: Secret Shopper Big Spender A Call for Experts Problematic Payback Tying It All Together About the Author Chapter 26: Would You Like a Receipt? Fishy Receipts A Trip to the Golden State Fraud from the Get-Go! About the Author Chapter 27: The Coupon Code Crooks Coupon Stacking Warranty Fraud Trouble in Paradise After Hours Interview Big Savings Gone Bad About the Authors Chapter 28: He Fought the Law Online Disorder Dressing as the Enemy Radioing the Truth The Outcome of the Investigation About the Author Chapter 30: French Connections The Benefits of Blandishment A Case of Manipulation A Prolific Liar About the Author Chapter 31: Irreconcilable Differences Looking for Buried Checks Too Much Trust One Bad Check Leads to Another Reputation vs. Justice About the Author Chapter 32: Keeping It In the Family Welcome to the Family Family Secrets Getting Down to Business Breaking the News About the Author Chapter 33: I Due Fraud: A Cruel Mistress Taking the Necessary Steps Picking Up the Pieces About the Author Chapter 34: What Lies Inside the Trojan Horse Risky Business A Supposed Software Savior Deception at the Hands of Their Own Shadow Company About the Author Chapter 35: Lost in Transition Off to a Bad Start Manipulate the Balance Dinner with a Thief Take It to the Grave About the Author Chapter 36: Superhero Syndrome When in Doubt, Ask Call to Duty The Computer Made Me Do It Fraud Revealed About the Author Chapter 37: Stealing for the Sale A Check for Christmas Planes, Jewels, and Automobiles Forfeiting the Farm About the Authors Chapter 38: Do as I Say, Not as I Do Not Another Lunar Special Give Me the Raw Data In Violation of Public Trust About the Author Chapter 39: Cinderella: One Glass Slipper Just Wasn’t Enough Trust in Me Balancing Act Spend-erella About the Author Chapter 40: Bloggers: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff Cyber Gossip: Spreading Rumors on the Internet Hell Hath No Fury Like... Smoking Guns and Poetic Justice About the Authors Chapter 41: The Campus Con A Special Mother-Daughter Relationship The Cookie That Crumbled The Other Daughter Restitution About the Author Chapter 42: One for You, One for Me: A Tale of Crooked Insurance Insurance 101 It’s Better to Give Than Receive Follow the Money The Outcome of the Investigation About the Author Index