Professionals working with victims of crime may find the following training-related links of interest:

2007 Global Conference on Economic and High-Tech Crime October 24–26, 2007 (Event)
Those who commit high-tech crimes find ever-increasing opportunities in an Internet world that is borderless. Criminal investigators and prosecutors of these crimes must become equally agile in apprehending offenders. The Global Conference offers 2 ½ days of cutting-edge techniques and information for investigation and prosecution of white collar crimes. Breakout sessions include international banking fraud; cross-border and global ID theft; global criminal use of social networking sites like MySpace to carry out crimes against children, ID theft, and credit card fraud; global digital media theft and piracy; and the evidence-gathering challenges connected with wireless devices.

Telemarketing Fraud Prevention, Public Awareness, and Training Activities (August 1998)
This OVC fact sheet (FS 000214) describes four innovative projects funded by OVC to prevent and intervene in telemarketing fraud schemes that target elderly citizens. These include the Elder Financial Exploitation Prevention Program; the Telemarketing Fraud Project for Latino Elderly; Operation Fraudstop; and Telemarketing Fraud Prevention, Public Awareness, and Training Activities.

Victims of Fraud & Economic Crime (Bulletin)
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This bulletin documents the ideas generated by participants of the Fraud Victimization Focus Group convened by OVC in April 1998.