Dissecting One Click Frauds

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-26

  Christin, Nicolas ^a   Yanagihara, Sally S ^a   Kamataki, Keisuke ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online crime; Web frauds

Indexed keywords

BANK ACCOUNTS; BINDING CONTRACTS; CLICK FRAUD; ECONOMIC DYNAMICS; FRAUDSTERS; INTERNET USERS; MALWARES; ONLINE CRIME; PHONE NUMBER; PUBLIC REPORTS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; TASK FORCE; TYPE OF SERVICES; WEB FRAUDS;

COMPUTER CRIME; INTERNET;

CRIME;

EID: 78650002261     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866307.1866310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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