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Article
| IEEE Security & Privacy
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July – August 2010
Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse
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Benjamin G. Edelman
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Abstract
Web users face considerable fraud, malfeasance, and economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to identify whether those rules assign responsibility to the parties best positioned to take action.
Keywords: Online Technology;
Crime and Corruption;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Economics;
Law;