A Model of Economic Crime Prevention against conjoint Public Cheating and Fraud Via Mobile Phone

Abstract

              This research has the objective of presenting a model of economic crime prevention in the case of conjoint public cheating and fraud via mobile phones using mixed method starting with qualitative research. Data is collected using in-depth interviews of 37 key subjects. data is analyzed by content analysis. Quantitative research is done using questionnaires for officers from government agencies, private sector and mobile phone users in the total of 400 subjects. Statistics used in data analysis include frequency distribution, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The research’s result shows that economic crime prevention model in the case of conjoint public cheating and fraud via mobile phones; i.e. LITERACY-MODEL consists of 7 aspects as follows: 1) L = Legal, i.e. the provision of personal data protection laws to prevent the sale of business information of entrepreneur and reduce the chance of misconduct ; 2) I= International Cooperation, i.e. the preparation of an international criminal history database system and international cooperation agreement; 3) T=Training and Supporting, i.e. adding sufficient number of position of the inquiry officer and assistant investigative officer, and providing training for staffs to keep up to date with technology; 4) E=Enforcement, i.e. issuing punitive rules against commercial banks to ensure that commercial banks verify personal information and notify the applicant for a new account every time in order to prevent the newly opened account from being used to commit an offense; 5) R=Reforming, i.e. establishing a dedicated operation center as a center for coordination and responsible for tasks between related agencies acting independently according to the law; 6) A= Acknowledgment and Public Relation, i.e. publicizing news and information of related agencies, both government and private sectors, to allow the public to participate in crime prevention; 7) Cy=Cyber Networking, i.e. giving opportunity for the public to participate in the justice process in order to avoid falling victims to various forms of crime, especially the application of social network.