The Others

Abstract

The result of nearly any categorization is a category that groups the leftovers together and calls them ‘others.’ This is a familiar concept for survey research, where questionnaires inquire about the participants’ age, ethnicity, income, etc. and generally provide a category labelled ‘others.’ The group of ‘others’ often consists of misfits who fail to claim membership of another category. The appealing aspect of the ‘others’ is the gathering of diverse actors. This, however, complicates the establishment of overarching conclusions about this category. Certain actors included in this chapter demonstrate considerable overlap with other actors covered in previous chapters, whereas other actors included demonstrate a unique position and original means of facilitation with respect to financial identity theft. This chapter is not comprehensive for all of the possible members of the ‘others’ category. Instead it aims to capture the most significant and influential others in relation to the facilitation of financial identity theft. Elucidating the facilitation of the ‘others’ besides the main actors of the previous chapters is essential to complete the picture of the opportunity structure of financial identity theft.