How Online Fraud Victims are Targeted in China: A Crime Script Analysis of Baidu Tieba C2C Fraud

E-commerce is the practice of purchasing, selling, transferring, and exchanging goods, services, or information through the Internet, a computer, and/or other devices. With the development of e-commerce markets, fraud is increasingly reported. This study uses a crime script analysis to examine how c...

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Published inCrime and delinquency Vol. 68; no. 13-14; pp. 2529 - 2553
Main Author Lee, Claire Seungeun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2022
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Consumers
Crime
Criminology
Customers
Cybercrime
Fraud
Internet
Markets
Trade
Victims
Victims of crime
China
online platforms/communities
crime script analysis
Baidu Tieba
e-commerce fraud
China
customer-to-customer fraud
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Summary:E-commerce is the practice of purchasing, selling, transferring, and exchanging goods, services, or information through the Internet, a computer, and/or other devices. With the development of e-commerce markets, fraud is increasingly reported. This study uses a crime script analysis to examine how customer-to-customer (C2C) fraud occurs on China’s online platforms with a particular focus on the online marketplace Baidu Tieba and Tencent QQ, a tool that allows customers to make contact and negotiate deals and payment methods. The findings demonstrate that C2C fraud develops through pre-operation, operation, finalization, and exit stages, sharing commonalities with other online identity fraud processes. Implications for policy and interventions are also discussed in regard to e-commerce fraud in China and elsewhere.
ISSN:0011-1287
1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/00111287211029862