| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 94 === The objective of this research is, first, to determine the demographic characteristics of repeat fraud victims, second, to explore the victimization situation, third, to identify the time effects in relation to victimization, and finally, to illustrate the typologies of frauds. Further combat strategies are proposed based on the findings.
According to the Taiwan national database, a total of 16,718 subjects reported a fraud event from January to June in 2005. Additionally, a total of 301 had been repeat victims of fraud. Parameters of interest in this research are analyzed between these groups using suitably chosen statistical methodologies.
Results show that the majority of the fraud victims were male, aged 20-29, high-school or university graduates, and industry or mining employed. The first fraud event often happened between 12 to 3 pm in prosperous cities with an average loss amount of NT$ 145,484 dollars per subject. And by now, only a quarter (1/4) of the events had been uncovered. Furthermore, mean time to the next fraud event is 20.1 days.
Repeat victims were screened according to risk factors: (1) personal traits (2) timing (3) typologies.
Possible anti-fraud measures include:(1) utilization of the mass media (2) use of community and schools guidance(3) household visits to high risk repeat victims (4) workshops on avoidance strategies for high risk repeat victims (5) always double check the truthfulness of incoming calls and mail.
The third strategy is to encourage the greater cooperation between governmental and financial institutions, especially working processes.
Fourth, create a more systematic and comprehensive crime type classification for the offence of fraud.
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