Condemns the perpetration of economic fraud and identity-related crime; requests the Secretary-General to disseminate the report as widely as possible; encourages Member States to consider establishing or updating, as appropriate, criminal offences for the illicit taking, copying, fabrication and misuse of identification documents and identification information; encourages Member States to make full use of modern technologies to prevent and combat economic fraud and identity-related crime; urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to provide, upon request and subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, legal expertise or other forms of technical assistance to Member States reviewing or updating their laws dealing with transnational fraud and identity-related crime; decides to include "Economic fraud and identity-related crime" as a potential thematic topic for discussion by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at one of its future sessions.

Adopted without vote, 45th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2007, New York, 17 and 22 Jan., 6, 9 and 15 Feb., 2 and 15 Mar. and 16 Apr. 2007; resumed organizational session for 2007, New York, 25 and 26 Apr. and 24 May 2007, substantive session of 2007, Geneva, 2-27 July 2007, resumed substantive session of 2007, New York, 4 and 17 Oct. 2007 - E/2007/99 - p. 54-56 - (ESCOR, 2007, Suppl. no. 1).