Purpose – Advance fee fraud on the internet is a current epidemic that rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars per … year. The advent of the internet and proliferation of its use in the 1990s makes it an attractive medium for communicating … information on advance fee fraud on the internet, especially in the web sites of anti‐fraud organisations, this study suggests a …

Purpose – Internet fraud is an epidemic that costs US$7.1 billion as of 2007. The advent of the internet and …/value – Considering the current and widespread problem of online fraud, this paper is expected to inform and prepare internet users …

enforcement of bilateral regulations. This research concludes with the importance of global action in fighting economic crimes … with destinations in developing countries. Originality/value – This paper advances the academic debate on economic crimes … economic crimes.  …

studied at the organizational level and by sector, by looking at money laundering and bribery – two economic crimes that are … prevention rather than punishment, the costs of controlling economic crimes in the developing countries are unnecessarily high …

derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …