碩士 / 國立臺北大學 / 犯罪學研究所 / 102 / There has been a significant increase of telecommunication fraud in Taiwan region since 2000.
Due to the prosperous establishment of technology, advancing internet and globalization development, many fraudulent crimes have been committed to prey upon citizens’ riches in many names and via various deceitful tricks. According to the statistics on fraud in Taiwan, there is a massive increase of 13.77% from 1997 with a total of 2,817 cases, to 2009 with a total of 38,802 cases. Fraud syndicates have been further developed, and with an expansion of organization scale to cross-border fraud syndicates between Taiwan and China ever since 2003. Not only have a great number of dummy accounts and dummy phone numbers been utilized, transfers and remittances through financial institutions as well as various communication technologies such as call forwarding, Internet phones and illegal telecommunication platforms… etc. have also be incorporated. With a combination of the establishment of telecommunication traffic generator rooms outside of Taiwan and China (a third port), crimes are committed by delivering fraudulent messages. The main purpose of this research is to carry out discussions on how telecommunicated fraudulent crimes committed by fraud syndicates have evolved into cross-border telecommunication crimes, and other relevant investigations as well as the pros and cons of criminal policy (prevention), hoping to have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of telecommunicated fraudulent crimes. Related suggestions for improvement are therefore raised to prevent and eliminate this rampantly increasing crime in Taiwan, upholding the stability of internal affairs and the balance of economic order.
Through the interviews with 3 members from cross-border telecommunication fraud syndicates, this research investigates how these groups have gradually evolved into cross-border syndicates in recent years. By doing so, it enables the criminal path of cross-border telecommunication fraud syndicates to be sketched. Related suggestions for improvement based on the result of this research will then be raised to prevent and eliminate this rampantly increasing crime in Taiwan, upholding the stability of internal affairs and the balance of economic order.
This research provides the following findings: most members of cross-border telecommunication fraud syndicates generally have traits, such as low level of education and income, unstable source of income, work mainly for jobs that require a huge amount of labor and limited skills, drug habits and frequent customers of night clubs as well as consuming alcohol; the recruitment process of new group members is mainly referred by close relatives; strongholds are mostly located in developed cities along the coast, although there is only a short distance between generator rooms and dorms, the locations need to be hired separately in order to avoid police detection; the key to the success of a fraudulent scam is due to the lack of victim monitoring; cross-border fraud syndicate members have a high turn-over rate, and they do not have a fixed pay as the remuneration is divided based on their fraudulent sales performance; both internal management and punishment of fraud syndicates are under-established, night clubs are group members’ main choice of social venues, but there are no connections between members; members who have the funds, fraudulent speech training manual and management model are likely to leave their original groups to further establish new ones; all of which show that cross-border telecommunication fraud syndicates are rapid-changing criminal groups that are multi-functioned and have organizational structures, using technology and internet extensively to improve their criminal skills.
The suggestions from this research are as follows: take tougher measure to combat telecommunication generator rooms set in the third port; promote the amendment of “Communication Security and Surveillance Act”; improve the energy of fraudulent crime fighting; strengthen the recovery of illegal gains of telecommunication fraud; strengthen the monitoring of reoccurring telecommunication fraudulent crimes; unite the authorities and countermeasures of informative and communicative internet.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NTPU0102027 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | CHI,YEN-HSI, 紀延熹 |
| Contributors | SHEU,CHUEN-JIM, 許春金 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 105 |
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