Financial crimes

Financial crimes

Financial Crimes are defined as a crime against property, involving the unlawful conversion of property belonging to another to one’s own personal use and benefit. Financial crimes often involve fraud.

Financial crimes are carried out via check and credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, medical fraud, corporate fraud, bank account fraud, payment (point of sale) fraud, currency fraud, and health care fraud, and they involve acts such as insider trading, tax violations, kickbacks, embezzlement, identity theft, cyber attacks, money laundering, and social engineering. Financial crimes sometimes, but not always, involve criminal acts such as elder abuse, armed robbery, burglary, and even murder. Victims range from individuals to institutions, corporations, governments and entire economies.

See also

*Money Laundering
*Greenmail
*Fraud
*Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
*White-collar crime
*Tax haven
*Black market
*Grey economy
*Guardia di Finanza

External links

* [http://www.fbi.gov/publications/financial/fcs_report052005/fcs_report052005.htm/ Federal Bureau of Investigation - Financial Crimes Report to the Public]


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