Affinity Fraud is a type of investment fraud in which perpetrators exploit trust within a close-knit social, ethnic, religious, or professional group to perpetrate deceptive financial schemes, typically Ponzi schemes, by leveraging shared affiliations to gain credibility and recruit victims.
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Who Gets Swindled in Ponzi Schemes?
Stephen Deason, Shivaram Rajgopal, Gregory B. Waymire · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2015 · 68 citations · Full text
Business, Accountancy, Finance +13
Affinity fraud and trust within financial markets
Keith Blois, Annmarie Ryan · Journal of Financial Crime · 2013 · 27 citations
Social Sciences, Finance, Sociology +10
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University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, United States
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2 publications
57 citations
Emory University
Atlanta, United States
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2 publications
136 citations
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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1 publications
27 citations
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
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1 publications
14 citations
Columbia University
New York, United States
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1 publications
68 citations
George Washington University
Washington, United States
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1 publications
17 citations
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- Journal of Financial Crime
3 publications · 84 citations
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- University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
1 publications · 16 citations
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- SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 1 publications · 68 citations
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