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Social Engineering Evaluation of Electronic Financial Fraud: Analysis of Actual Victims through FGI (전자금융사기의 사회공학적 진화: FGI를 통한 실제 피해자 분석)

  • Park, Jong-Pil;Ryu, Jae Kwan
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2018
  • Recently, much attention in electronic financial fraud has been dramatically increased. In particular, the electronic financial fraud has been transforming to social engineering. Despite the growing interest in electronic financial fraud, few guidelines exist how to effectively avoid the serious damage from electronic financial fraud. Moreover, it is rarely investigated cases of victims from financial fraud. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate why financial fraud crime victims occurs. To enhance mundane realism, we conducted Focus Group Interview(FGI) with actual victims from financial fraud crime. Drawing analysis of FGI with actual victims, we found that there are certain damage patterns. Further, we found that the reason why financial fraud crime victims occurs is optimistic biases of humans rooted in behavioral economics. Therefore, this study provides the valuable guidelines and directions to prevent electronic financial fraud based on risk and crisis management perspective. Ultimately, this study is able to help the establishment and implementation of a comprehensive electronic financial fraud prevention policy.

The Effect of Fraud Pentagon Theory on Financial Statements: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

  • DEVI, Putu Nirmala Chandra;WIDANAPUTRA, Anak Agung Gde Putu;BUDIASIH, I Gusti Ayu Nyoman;RASMINI, Ni Ketut
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.1163-1169
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to obtain empirical evidence regarding the effect of the fraud pentagon theory on financial statement fraud. The novelty of this study is the use of factor analysis to consolidate the five elements of the fraud pentagon into just one factor, which, to the knowledge of the researcher, no one else has done to research the effect of pentagon fraud on financial statement fraud. This study uses both agency theory and fraud pentagon theory. The population of this study consists of state-owned companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The research period in this study is from 2014 to 2019. The data used in this study is secondary data obtained from the company's annual financial statements. A purposive sampling technique was used to determine the research sample. The selected companies total 20. Factor analysis and simple linear regression analysis method were used as research the methods. Based on the research results, it was found that the fraud pentagon theory had a positive effect on the financial statement fraud of state-owned companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. High level of the pentagon fraud on a company leads to a higher indication of financial statement fraud.

A Study on the Countermeasures for Prevention of Opening a Fraud Account (사기이용계좌 개설 방지를 위한 대응방안 연구)

  • Kim, Chang Woo;Yoon, Ji Won
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.173-179
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    • 2015
  • Financial fraud such as phishing have passed several years from the occurrence, in spite of the widely known through the media, regardless of the social status or age, financial fraud has occurred on an ongoing basis, the damage is not reduced. The fraud account, the person who made the account, the user is different, it is possible to avoid tracking financial channel, and is used as a receiving means for fraud money of various crimes. Efforts of financial institutions and financial supervisory institutions, it has been promoted by preparing various measures for the eradication of fraud account so far been used as a means of financial crime, the proliferation of financial fraud, opening and distribution of fraud account is a receiving means for fraud money are also increasing continuously, it is necessary to take countermeasures. In spite of the continuous crackdown of financial institutions and financial supervisory institutions, it is causing serious damage to society, analyzes the current situation of fraud account, to present an effective and aggressive countermeasure of financial institutions in this paper.

A Study on Improving the Electronic Financial Fraud Prevention Service: Focusing on an Analysis of Electronic Financial Fraud Cases in 2013 (전자금융사기 예방서비스의 개선방안에 관한 연구: 2013년 전자금융사기 피해사례분석을 중심으로)

  • Jeong, Dae Yong;Lee, Kyung-Bok;Park, Tae Hyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.1243-1261
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    • 2014
  • With the methods of electronic financial frauds becoming advanced, economic losses have greatly increased. The Electronic Financial Fraud Prevention Service(hereafter EFFPS) has taken effect to prevent electronic financial frauds, but economic losses still occurring. This paper aimed to suggest a direction for improvement of the EFFPS, through the analysis of electronic financial fraud cases. As a result of analysis on the fraud cases before and after implementation of the EFFPS, 'Fraud using Smartphone App' and 'Fraud using Calls and SMS' were increased after implementation of the EFFPS, and also the damage cost of 'Fraud using Smartphone App' had increased. Also we revealed some limitations of the EFFPS. For complementing this limitations, authors considered direction for improvement of the EFFPS focus on application of current services/systems related prevention of electronic financial fraud and considered the ways that are make connection with several measurements related prevention currently being discussed and implemented in perspective of defense in depth.

Fraud Investigation, Internal Audit Quality and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Thai Listed Companies

  • JANNOPAT, Saithip;PHORNLAPHATRACHAKORN, Kornchai
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.311-324
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    • 2022
  • The objective of this study is to examine the influence of fraud investigation on organizational performance of Thai listed companies through mediating effects of internal audit quality, accounting information transparency and financial effectiveness, and moderating effect of corporate governance. In this study, 333 Thai listed companies are the samples of the study. Both the structural equation model and multiple regression analysis are used to examine the research relationships. The results of this study show that fraud investigation has a significant influence on internal audit quality, accounting information transparency, and financial effectiveness. Internal audit quality significantly influences accounting information transparency, financial effectiveness, and organizational performance while financial effectiveness significantly influences organizational performance. Next, both internal audit quality and financial effectiveness potentially mediate the fraud investigation-organizational performance relationships. In addition, corporate governance critically moderates the fraud investigation-internal audit quality relationships and the fraud investigation-financial effectiveness relationships. In summary, fraud investigation functions as an important valuable technique of internal audit practices. As a result, businesses must build and implement a systematic fraud investigation procedure to generate and improve beneficial outcomes in the short, medium, and long term.

The Effectiveness of the Sanctions for Corporate Crime: Audit Review Evidence

  • Lee, Jeong-Mi
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, I propose monetary penalties imposed on firms sanctioned by the Financial Supervisory Service for fraudulent financial reporting in accounting and auditing enforcement release(FSS-sanctioned fraud firms) should be disclosed to the notes of financial statement of the firms. Disclosing to the notes of financial statement for FSS-sanctioned fraud firms is an effective way to inform all the related parties of the information which affects the value of the corporation. Even though monetary penalties can affect the value of the firms, however, this study suggests that monetary penalties imposed on the fraud firms have a question on the effectiveness of the sanctions. In addition, this study finds that the magnitude of the market reactions between the fraud firms imposed by monetary penalties and the fraud firms imposed by non-monetary penalties has no difference. Based on these results, the information of FSS-sanctioned fraud firms should be disclosed to the notes of financial statements to have the market react effectively.

Research on the Financial Data Fraud Detection of Chinese Listed Enterprises by Integrating Audit Opinions

  • Leiruo Zhou;Yunlong Duan;Wei Wei
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.3218-3241
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    • 2023
  • Financial fraud undermines the sustainable development of financial markets. Financial statements can be regarded as the key source of information to obtain the operating conditions of listed companies. Current research focuses more on mining financial digital data instead of looking into text data. However, text data can reveal emotional information, which is an important basis for detecting financial fraud. The audit opinion of the financial statement is especially the fair opinion of a certified public accountant on the quality of enterprise financial reports. Therefore, this research was carried out by using the data features of 4,153 listed companies' financial annual reports and audits of text opinions in the past six years, and the paper puts forward a financial fraud detection model integrating audit opinions. First, the financial data index database and audit opinion text database were built. Second, digitized audit opinions with deep learning Bert model was employed. Finally, both the extracted audit numerical characteristics and the financial numerical indicators were used as the training data of the LightGBM model. What is worth paying attention to is that the imbalanced distribution of sample labels is also one of the focuses of financial fraud research. To solve this problem, data enhancement and Focal Loss feature learning functions were used in data processing and model training respectively. The experimental results show that compared with the conventional financial fraud detection model, the performance of the proposed model is improved greatly, with Area Under the Curve (AUC) and Accuracy reaching 81.42% and 78.15%, respectively.

Corporate Financial Fraud and Countermeasures in the Internet Era (인터넷 시대 기업의 재무부정과 대책)

  • Huang, Weidong;Jin, Shanyue
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2022
  • With the advent of the internet age and the outbreak of COVID-19, many companies have embraced online trade. However, due to the way the cyber economy works, the number of companies engaged in financial fraud by falsifying their transaction amounts and customer numbers has been gradually increasing. The purpose of this study is to analyze financial fraud of companies in the Internet era and to present solutions. Therefore, this study analyzed the financial fraud behavior of Luckin Coffee in China as an example and studied the causes and countermeasures of financial fraud. As a result, it was found that the cause of financial fraud lies in the opacity of cash flows from online transactions. The recommendations proposed by this study is to improve internal control systems in companies, develop risk management system, and establish comprehensive external supervision system

A study on the occupational fraud symptoms and detection methods for managing human element vulnerability in financial industry security (금융산업보안상 인적보안 취약요소인 업무부정의 발생징후와 적발방법에 관한 연구)

  • Suh, Joon-Bae;Shim, Hee-Sub
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.53
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    • pp.37-59
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to contribute to the early detection of occupational fraud in the Korean financial industry by analyzing fraud symptoms. Firstly, the definition, cause of occupational fraud, and fraud symptoms were discussed through literature review. Secondly, survey data were collected from the employees of the financial industry such as bank, insurance, and securities companies to conduct statistical analysis. The result of analysis showed that the symptoms of 'excessive stock investment' and 'unsettled life style' were statistically significant predictors of fraud detection experience. Plus, 'tips and complaints' were the most frequent method for detecting occupational fraud in the Korean financial industry. The financial institutions can minimize the loss of occupational fraud by early detection through educating their employees and vendors on these important symptoms of occupational fraud.

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Financial Industry Security: A Qualitative Study for Reducing Internal Fraud in Banking Institutions (금융산업보안: 은행권 내부부정 방지를 위한 질적 연구)

  • Suh, Joon Bae
    • Korean Security Journal
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    • no.56
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    • pp.165-185
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    • 2018
  • Because financial industry is closely related to the daily lives of people, internal fraud such as embezzlement by the employees can cause serious damage to the national economy, including credit crunch and contagious bankruptcy, as once demonstrated in the Savings Bank Scandal in 2011. Therefore, the importance of financial industry security is being emphasized and developed into converged security that combines physical, human and cyber security. In this study, to prevent fraud caused by internal employees in Korean financial sector, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 16 participants including bankers, officials of financial regulators, and security experts, who were in charge of risk management in the industry. The collected data were analyzed at three stratification levels such as individual, organization, and socio-cultural factor. Based on this analysis, policy recommendations were suggested for the development of financial industry security and reducing internal fraud in banking institutions.