A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation – Lawyers, Accountants, Finance Company Directors, Managers.
White Collar criminals are motivated by two factors:
They are non-violent crimes, normally performed by members of the upper classes.
White-collar crimes usually involve some form of violation of trust, and may result in significant monetary gain for the perpetrators.
Such crimes include fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, forgery, blackmail, computer fraud, counterfeiting, credit card fraud, currency schemes, environmental schemes, extortion, insider trading, racketeering, kickback, and tax evasion
The punishment for white-collar crime is often less severe than for crimes of violence and is rarely prosecuted and rarely convicted. Penalties are light
These crimes are hard to solve as the offenders are very much organised and know exactly what needs to be concealed and effectively cover their tracks.
Most white-collar criminals are very clever in evading detection by the law
They are also good at avoiding scepticism from their victims.
They build walls of false integrity around themselves to increase the comfort level of their victims
Most white-collar criminals are ordinary people who got into financial difficulty and who saw their way out of it through illegal and fraudulent measures
There are more people occupying small time white-collar positions.
So, it would be remarkable if there were many "big fish" arrested, since they are so rare to begin with.
But they do exist so be aware of these higher players they will bite you even harder
No matter what type of white collar fraud is committed the result is always the same victims of fraud suffer mental and emotional harm, as well as stress-related physical effects, in addition to what they have lost.
This website born out of seeing someone very close to me lose what they had worked their whole life to achieve through a firm of lawyer white colloer fraudsters.
I have seen how this sort of crime can affect a person and want to help prevent it from happening.
By providing this information and sharing this information may stop you becoming a victim.