Prevention of crim Retailers/Banks p Activities Najlaa AlMajed 1 , Leandros A. Mag 1 De Montfort University, School of Compu Abstract Online shopping and banking institute frequently used over the Internet. With have grown dramatically. Customer tru Both buyers and sellers are vulnerable and sellers should consider protecting t should do to minimize their customer' deficiencies in online shopping and onli may apply to minimize the risk of crimi Keywords: E-Commerce, E-banking, Vulne Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativ reproduction in any medium so long as the o doi: 10.4108/eai.8-12-2016.151727 1Corresponding author. Email: leandros.maglaras@d 1 me in B2C E-Commer protect themselves fro glaras uter Science and Informatics, Leicester, UK es are a current trend in e-commerce, where onlin h the fast growth of the technology and on-line prac ust in the security of on line activities is extremely imp to online risks. With the current focus being on preca themselves from criminal activities online, the issue o 's risk is apparently a neglected area in current liter line banking websites, and identifies suitable procedur inal activities. erabilities, Protection Received on 01 November 2015, accepted on 27 November 2016, published on 08 December 2016 Copyright © 2016 L. A. Maglaras et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the vecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited u original work is properly cited. dmu.ac.uk rce: How E- om Criminal 1,* , Francois Siewe 1 , Helge janicke 1 , Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh 1 ne shopping and banking are ctices, criminal activities also portant for successful trading. autions that individual buyers of what e-commerce websites rature. This research analyses res that e-commerce operators terms of the Creative use, distribution and EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety Research Article EAI European Alliance for Innovation EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety 11 2015 - 12 2016 | Volume 3 | Issue 7 | e4