Saturday, March 1, 2025

Consumer fraud: analyzing the problem and ways to solve it

 

Published on the main website of the project.

The article is devoted to one of the current topical problems of «Consumer fraud» - criminal activity aimed at deceiving citizens by selling (forcing) goods or providing services at inflated prices through deception, abuse of trust or moral and psychological state of the victim. The author examines in detail several common schemes of such fraud, such as imposing unnecessary services or equipment on elderly and socially vulnerable people, and analyzes psychological and legal aspects of these crimes.

Particular attention is paid to the vulnerability of the victims, that most often they are lonely elderly people who, due to lack of information and legal literacy, become easy prey for fraudsters.

The article also proposes specific measures to combat this phenomenon, including the re-establishment of specialized police units, strengthening preventive work, informing the population and creating hotlines for rapid response. The author emphasizes that a comprehensive approach, including both legal and social measures, is needed to effectively counter fraud.

The article will be useful not only for specialists in law and criminology, but also for a wide range of readers.

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