Identify some recent trends in property crime. How have property crimes changed as technology has developed?

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As technology develops, property crimes change as well. They get more involved and the use of technology becomes greater. The big con involves far more skill, more elaborate planning, higher-status victims, and much larger rewards for the criminal. Ponzi schemes are frauds in which early investors in a nonexistent product are paid high dividends on the basis of money obtained from later investors. Pyramid schemes require investors to seek a chain of other investors in order to reap a promised high return. Examples of big con operations also included religious cons. There are an enormous number of means that can be used in order to commit identity theft. This may include hacking, dumpster diving (going through discarded trash), examining unsanitized discarded electronic devices, stealing credit cards, using hand-held card readers to skim information from credit cards, stealing login credentials, using malware including keystroke logging programs, and phishing (pretending to be an employer in order to obtain information).

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