In this country, credit card companies, banks, and retail establishments suffer losses totaling $2 billion annually as the result of credit card abuse and fraud. This study examines the working habits of a gang of credit thieves. This clique of professional thieves, called fraud masters, are proficient in the art of securing credit cards and are willfully engaged in their abuse. Observations indicate that the criminal behavior of this gang of economic law violators reaffirms the strength of theoretical formulations regarding professional crime and criminals that were offered by Edwin H. Sutherland in 1937.
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