PROFILING INTERNET FRAUDSTERS
Profiling is a common technique used by criminal investigators to identify crimi- nals. Using whatever evidence is available, investigators compile what they know into a criminal profile, which is a list of characteristics that a criminal may exhibit. The profile aids in evaluating a suspect's probability of guilt and in the search for more evidence. Profiling is particularly necessary with Internet crime due to the invisibility, untraceability, and, often, lack of evidence. According to the Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, an estimated 19 million people worldwide have the skills to engage in malicious hacking 10 These malicious intruders usually begin cyber attacks at a young Mixter (a self-proclaimed white hat hacker'') started learn ing computers at age 6 and began malicious activity at age 14.