Fraud, deceptive strategies, and vulnerability: A study on how we are exploited when we are most at risk
Short description
Fraud is one of the major crime categories of our time and occurs in social arenas where people move daily. Therefore, exposure risk is a tangible part of people's everyday lives. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the strategies and approaches used to carry out fraud, which is why they are explored in this research project.
This research project explores the strategies and approaches used to commit fraud, with a particular focus on individuals who are temporarily or permanently in a vulnerable situation. The project's questions focus on how potential victims are identified and selected, and how the victims' situation affects the strategies designed. Furthermore, they focus on how perpetrators design fraudulent offers and use different techniques to convince victims and carry out crimes, and how the victims' actions affect the course of events and their outcome.
To answer the project's questions, case study methodology is used to collect and analyze empirical material from legal, regulatory, and disciplinary proceedings. In this way, the project intends to contribute to a research area that is under-researched both nationally and internationally. Although fraud is one of the major crime categories of our time, and occurs in social arenas where people move daily, knowledge of the strategies and approaches used to carry out fraud is inadequate, making it difficult for governments, municipalities, businesses and associations to design information campaigns, training and other crime prevention measures with precision and accuracy.