Why forums? An empirical analysis into the facilitating factors of carding forums

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'13

Volumn volume, Issue , 2013, Pages 453-462

  Yip, Michael ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel ^a   Webber, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carding; Cybercrime; Social computing; Underground economy; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER CRIME; DIGITAL STORAGE; TEXTILE CARDING; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

CYBERCRIME; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY UNCERTAINTY; REGULATORY SYSTEMS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNDERGROUND ECONOMY; WEB 2.0;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84883071917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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