Profiling Tax Scammers

University of Edinburgh Criminology Reading Group

<h3><em>The University of Edinburgh Criminology Reading Group Seminar Series 2020/2021 presents:</em></h3><h3><strong>Profiling Tax Scammers</strong></h3><h3><strong>Dr. Calli Tzani, University of Huddersfield https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/kalliopi-tzani-pepelasi</strong></h3><p>Presentation Abstract:</p><p>"Fraud has been always a financial burden for governments, while victims of fraud suffer financial and psychological consequences to the extreme of suicide because of embarrassment. The HMRC/IRS scams have been significantly increasing the past years with taxpayers being at a higher risk for victimisation, and governments reporting billions of losses annually. The majority of such operations originate in countries where there might be limited interest by the police in arresting such criminals, whilst the Westerns Countries that suffer the losses have no jurisdiction in the countries where the scammers are based. Consequently, there is limited available research and limited information on such offenders. The present study utilised videos where legitimate taxpayers and Internet trolls engage with HMRC/IRS scammers, where the first attempt to delay the scammer and protect other victims, and the latter are under the impression that they have identified a potential victim and a win."</p><p>Presently, Calli teaches for the MSc Investigative Psychology and the MSc Security Science. Calli completed the MSc in Investigative Psychology at Huddersfield University in 2015 and was awarded with a distinction for the MSc dissertation on the Polygraph and the GKT/CIT lie detection test. Her PhD focused on the field of school bullying and cyber-bullying, which was completed in 2018.</p><p>Calli has published a number of works related to the field of bullying as well as others related to Investigative Psychology papers. Calli currently contributes to research projects, such as peer mentoring at schools, online violence and aggression, online fraud, tax fraud, doorstep crime, lie detection and sextortion. Other research interests include cyber-fraud, terrorism workplace and school bullying, psychopathy, psychological abuse, paedophilia and online risks and suicide</p><p>To get some background context for the presentation, here is a link to the journal article on profiling tax scams using trolling videos: http://web.nacva.com/JFIA/Issues/JFIA-2020-No1-10.pdf</p><p>We look forward to seeing you!</p><p></p><aside>Image Credit: Kyber Security</aside>

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