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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Preventing crimes and acts of terrorism

This section will contain articles and other materials of the project participants devoted to the topic – «General questions of forecasting, prevention and suppression of criminal and terrorist acts at an early stage».

Promising direction for researches:

At the present time researches, dedicated to development of new and modernization of existing systems and methods, which can significantly increase efficiency of counteraction to threats of criminal and terrorist nature, are actual enough and represent real practical interest for specialists of different level:

- analytics and forecasting;

- prevention and suppression;

- minimization of consequences.

Models can be developed at the level of an individual municipality or region, as well as an entire state or a large federal entity.

It is important to remember that when working on materials on this issue, authors can indicate social and other factors that, in their opinion, affect the existing or probable situation. They should not, however, give qualitative assessments or make judgments about the causes and nature of these social phenomena. This should be done by specialized specialists: sociologists, political scientists, etc. The task of our project is to examine the situation from the professional perspective, as specialists in law enforcement, public order and security, and the fight against terrorism and extremism.

You can send your articles, reviews, essays and other materials to be placed in this section of the site by any convenient way to the editorial office of the project. Requirements for the content and design of publications, the order of their placement and recommendations for copyright protection can be found in the section Contacts.

Regards.

Project Editorial Board.

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