Combating online in-auction fraud: Clues, techniques and challenges

Computer Science Review

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 245-258

  Dong, Fei ^a   Shatz, Sol M ^a   Xu, Haiping ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUCTION FRAUDS; INTERNET AUCTIONS; NUMBER OF METHODS; ONLINE AUCTIONS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

CRIME;

EID: 70349995772     PISSN: 15740137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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