Author(s): Sultan Khalifa Humaid Khalifa Alshamsi, Nabil Hasan Saleh Al-Kumaim
E-crime is a criminal activity involving computer with the internet that distributes or damages electronics through viruses or cyber-attacks that lead to sensitive information leakage. E-crimes will cause a deny service to many authorized users through their computer functionality and breaches their security level. Thus, E-financial crimes are the act of obtaining financial gain through a profit-driven criminal activity focusing on stealing financial information. Businesses and consumers in the UAE suffered more than 617,347 phishing attacks during the Covid-19 stay-at-home measures. The data is then used to access important accounts and can result in identity theft and financial loss. UAE was ranked 9th after a higher number of phishing attacks on a bank. Therefore, individuals in economic and even non-financial organizations need to prevent these attacks from succeeding by developing an integrated model of e-crime awareness towards preventing e-crime in the UAE. Prevention of E-crimes is an essential element that creates awareness to the employees through well-equipped knowledge on human errors that tricks them through suspicious behavior. Furthermore, cyber security leadership is tended sufficiently in organizational leadership and security mechanisms. This paper intends to review the previous and current e-financial crime factors and comprehensively discuss the prevention of e-financial crimes in the UAE. Besides, the present concerns and difficulties that emerge and how to resolve the scenarios will be accumulated. The research’s primary conclusion focuses on developing an integrated model of e-crime awareness toward preventing e-financial crimes in the UAE.