An exploration of the anatomy of doorstep crime rogue trading

Drawing together extant literature this paper explores the anatomy of doorstep crime rogue trading, the motives of the offenders and identifies the criminal offences relevant to the response to this in-person fraud.

An under-explored fraud typology in academia, the crime is often misunderstood by law enforcement, resulting in an incorrect classification as a civil law issue. This has implications for the denial of victim status (and associated support) for those defrauded; misunderstandings that when combined with the financial industry’s reimbursement rules for victims of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, are likely to result in victims incorrectly excluded from reimbursement and suffering double-victimisation.