Preventing and Investigating Information Technology Fraud
Richard E. Cascarino · 2012
In recent years, an enormous amount of publicity has been given to the threat of computer crime, which has led to a greater awareness at the executive level. Unfortunately, computer crimes happen in real time and the crime is completed in microseconds. Only a tiny percentage of such crimes are found in time to perform any form of meaningful investigation unless care has been taken beforehand to create an appropriate detective environment. In order to prevent IT fraud, it is necessary to understand how such fraud can be carried out. Generally, the online criminal requires access to individual's personal information before one can do anything. Many fraud schemes make use of a type of program called spyware. Spyware is software that, once installed, will collect information about individual and return to its source.