RT Article
T1 How Online Fraud Victims are Targeted in China: A Crime Script Analysis of Baidu Tieba C2C Fraud
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 13/14
SP 2529
OP 2553
A1 Lee, Claire Seungeun
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616768
AB 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.
K1 Baidu Tieba
K1 China
K1 crime script analysis
K1 customer-to-customer fraud
K1 e-commerce fraud
K1 online platforms/communities
DO 10.1177/00111287211029862