PERSONALITY TRAITS CAN INDICATE A PREDILECTION FOR FRAUD SAY EXPERTS
November 2nd, 2021
Are people with specific personality traits more prone to commit frauds than others? Psychological researchers and experienced anti-fraud professionals agree that this is indeed the case.
A study into the motivation of cyber-fraudster, written by a researcher at Perdue University, Indiana, USA, last year (2020) concluded that individuals with higher levels of narcissism had “higher capabilities to commit online fraud”. Also, study subjects who were more willing to “rationalise fraudulent acts” were more likely to go ahead with such scams than those less ...
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