Tactics Used Against Consumers as Victims of Internet Deception
Stefano Grazioli, Sirkka L. Järvenpää · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
The Internet has created new forms of consumer fraud and has altered the nature of existing fraud schemes. This paper uses the taxonomy of deception tactics proposed by Johnson et al. (in press) to explore which fraudulent tactics are most frequently used against Internet consumers. Propositions about the relative frequency of these tactics are tested by means of data extracted from a database of Internet fraud cases that is being built at the University of Texas.