Question

In the context of online crime, in a(n) _____, the perpetrator offers to share the proceeds of some large payoff with the victim if the victim will make a "good faith" deposit or provide some partial funding first.

Answer 1

Answer:

Advance fee fraud

Explanation:

An advance-fee fraud or scam can be defined as the way in which a fraudsters or a 419 persuade his/her victims to deposit some amount of money by promising the victims a share of a large sum of money in return for the deposit he made.

Example the fraudsters may tell the victims or convince the victim to deposits $200 in return for $1,000 in which the victim may unknowingly fall for by thinking that the deal is real .

In this method of fraud the money which are often purportedly to be deposited in a victim account are often described as money that must be quickly transferred out of a country due to a number of reasons.

In another word Advance fee frauds is the process of asking a victim to pay some amount of money in other to receive large sum of money and for the deal to go through in which the victim is convinced to advance money to the stranger.

Therefore In the context of online crime, in a(n) ADVANCE FEE FRAUD the perpetrator offers to share the proceeds of some large payoff with the victim if the victim will make a "good faith" deposit or provide some partial funding first.