A Study on the Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Victims of Fraud Crimes

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of victims of fraudulent crimes and to derive influencing factors based on previous studies such as low self-control, fear of crime damage, indirect experience or exposure based on Gottfredson and Hirschil (1990). In addition, in order to examine the part of voice phishing, which has a higher proportion of fraudulent crimes, we tried to verify the characteristics and influencing factors of victims who have experienced voice phishing crime remittance. As a result of analyzing the empirical study using the secondary data, it was found that there was a difference in damage experience according to the demographic characteristics of age, worker position, and education level, and there was no difference according to demographic characteristics in voice phishing remittance damage experience. The difference between the experience of fraudulent crime and voice phishing remittance was statistically significant according to the fear of property crime damage, indirect experience of property crime damage, and voice phishing remittance experience. However, like the results of correlation analysis and cross-analysis, fear of property crime and indirect experience of property crime damage were found to be significant influencing factors on the experience of fraudulent crime damage and voice phishing remittance. In addition, it was verified as an influencing factor that affects the experience of fraudulent crime damage when there is an experience of voice phishing exposure. Based on the research results, we intend to use it as data to present countermeasures to prevent damage to fraudulent crimes, including voice phishing crime damage.