| 英文摘要 |
Over the past three decades, globalization has brought significant changes, with continuous technological advancements and the growing interconnectedness of global economies, political systems, and cultures.. The development of information networks and telecommunications has facilitated the globalization of crime, with transnational fraud emerging as a significant threat. The rapid advancement of technology has enabled fraud to exploit the Internet, telecommunications, and communication technologies, causing it to proliferate globally.This study employs the crime script technique to deconstruct the stages of fraudulent activities, expose the organizational structure and roles. The research utilizes secondary data analysis of 141official court verdicts from the past 7 years to break down the process of transnational fraud using the nine stages of the crime script. To ensure the authenticity and validity of the crime process, interviews were conducted with six fraud-experienced investigative detectives. The organizational structure and roles were compared with the crime scripts derived from the verdicts, providing a comprehensive view of the overall fraud crime scene. Transnational fraud syndicates are divided into four major sub-groups: telecom operations, system providers, money laundering operations, and money mules. Each sub-group plays a crucial role within the overall crime process, which includes various stages from the pre-crime phase—such as criminal intent, horizontal integration, equipment procurement, and member recruitment. In the execution phase, system providers assist the telecom operations in identifying potential victims, telecom members conduct a three-stage communication process to persuade victims to transfer funds, and finally, the money laundering operations disperse the illicit proceeds through layered transfers or exchange methods, or the cash courier group withdraws the funds. |