Objective
Credit card fraud is a highly profitable criminal activity which involves the unauthorised taking of another person’s credit card information for the purpose of using the money available on an account or removing funds from it. To respond effectively to this threat, cooperation between law enforcement authorities and the private sector is crucial.
This seminar will look at the different forms of payment fraud, at concrete examples of credit card fraud and at the key role played by the exchange of information between the public and private sectors.
Key topics
- Credit card fraud: a challenge for the application of traditional fraud provisions
- Online auction fraud (cases, technical solutions and legal responses)
- Challenges in investigating and prosecuting internet fraud: phishing (including also dummy corporations and boiler room ops)
- Fraud committed with electronic means of payment: experiences in EU Member States
- Involvement of the internet industry in fighting online financial crimes
About the project
This project, sponsored by the European Commission, consists of six seminars to take place in Zagreb, Madrid, Athens, Trier, Prague and Tallinn.
Each seminar will have a specific focus:
- The life cycle of e-evidence: from the issuing order to the presentation in court passing by the custody chain
(Zagreb, 7-8 March 2017)
- The life cycle of e-evidence: the rise of evidence on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets)
(Madrid, 23-24 May 2017)
- The life cycle of e-evidence: handling e-evidence in online fraud cases
(Athens, 7-8 November 2017)
- The life cycle of e-evidence: handling e-evidence in child sex abuse material
(Trier, February 2018)
- The life cycle of e-evidence: the challenges posed by “Cloud Computing”
(Prague, May 2018)
- The life cycle of e-evidence: acquisition of e-evidence and jurisdictional issues
(Tallinn, September 2018)
Who should attend?
Judges, prosecutors and lawyers in private practice from EU Member States.
Please note that due to the
large number of applications for this series on e-evidence, participants can attend only 1 event out of the 6 outlined above.
Participation conditions
Registration fee: €200 with no discounts
The number of places
available for participants is limited. All
applicants will be informed if they have been selected or not after
application has closed.
Travel costs up to €300 and two nights' hotel
accommodation up to €125 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon
receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes, invoices
after the seminar.
Participants are asked to book their own travel and accommodation.
These rules do not apply to representatives of EU Institutions and
Agencies who are supposed to cover their own travel and accommodation.
Participation is only open to judges, prosecutors and lawyers in private practice from eligible EU Member States.
Event fully booked!