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The changing nature of fraud in Australia - August 2000

Publication date: August 2000

Author: Office of Strategic Crime Assessments

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to alert law enforcement policy developers to emerging social, technological and economic trends that may have significant law enforcement impact within the next five years. The focus of this report is the changing nature of fraud, including the changing nature of how fraud is committed. The rapid development and use of new technologies, together with increasing globalisation of markets and financial systems and changing business practices in the public and private sectors, provide new opportunities for criminal exploitation. These threats will create new challenges for prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution both in Australia and overseas. 

This paper discusses the most significant issues in relation to new generation fraud-technology, e-commerce and identity. The type of fraud of most concern is internet fraud or cyberfraud.