Identity Fraud and the digital users' cognizance

Bc. Priyanka Amit Soni

Master's thesis

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Abstract: The present thesis aims at analyzing Identity Fraud and focuses on the aspects of awareness that the digital-devices users should have. Starting with the types of Identity Fraud, users of the various platforms on the Internet have been asked to share their experiences. Thereafter giving description of the types of offenders, scope and stages of identity theft and Recording and Reporting identity theft. The study sets out to explain how to prevent or mitigate identity crime and the challenges related to that. For this purpose, analysis has been done to target the correct people. Concerning the methodology, the study is based on a quantitative research. Therefore, a questionnaire was compiled and applied to a representative sample of 52 respondents from various backgrounds in terms of gender, age, length of their engagement with their company. In accordance with the obtained results, the conclusion to be drawn is that these days awareness related to identity fraud is very much essential and correct precautions and measures will lead to mitigate the identity fraud. Abstraktní: Tato diplomová práce se zaměřuje na analýzu podvodů s identitou a zaměřuje se na aspekty povědomí, které by uživatelé digitálních zařízení měli mít. Počínaje typy Identity Fraud byli uživatelé různých platforem na internetu požádáni o sdílení svých zkušeností. Poté je uveden popis typů pachatelů, rozsahu a fází krádeže identity a záznamu a hlášení krádeží identity. Cílem studie je vysvětlit, jak předcházet trestné činnosti související s identitou a zmírňovat její problémy a problémy s ní spojené. Za tímto účelem byla provedena analýza zaměřená na správné lidi. Pokud jde o metodologii, je studie založena na kvantitativním výzkumu. Proto byl sestaven dotazník a aplikován na reprezentativní vzorek 52 respondentů z různých prostředí z hlediska pohlaví, věku, délky jejich spolupráce s jejich společností. V souladu se získanými výsledky je třeba učinit závěr, že v dnešní době je informovanost o podvodech s identitou velmi důležitá a správná opatření a opatření povedou ke zmírnění podvodů s identitou. Introduction:The dawn of the Internet and computer technologies has had a substantial influence on modern societies. Information can now be obtained in a blink of an eye, and preserved on an exceptional large scale. Many countries now struggle with the incidents of cyberspace identity theft, cyberspace identity fraud, hacking, sabotage, electronic money laundering among others.(Cradduck , 2007) For example, websites, as well as online services such as emails and chat rooms, enable cybercriminals to steal the personal data of naive users, defraud them, and lauder the proceeds. The methods used to commission cyberspace identity theft changed dramatically with the emergence of the Internet, the widespread use of credit cards, and the growing volume of e-commerce. (Schreft, 2007) There are 14 substantial differences between the theft of identity in cyberspace and that of the real world. Another such distinction is that the methods are constantly evolving in the former case. This makes it difficult for law enforcement authorities to keep pace with them and therefore adopt appropriate procedures for investigation. Moreover, compared to its real-world counterpart, theft of identity in cyberspace can cause greater economic damage to the victim. (Newman & McNally, Identity Theft Literature Review, 2005) Since, identity fraud is one of the major cybercrime which is usually ignored by many people around the world. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to perform a research on a public survey to fulfill key objectives. this research will try to get proper results of identity fraud in Czech Republic. Hence, the main focus of this research is to analyses the patterns and trends of victim and offenders, along with that, this resear

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ch will also spread awareness about identity theft and how one can prevent themselves to become a victim. Methods:We have few sections addressing the research design, research tool used for data collection, method used for data collection, sampling method and statistical analysis tool used. Firstly, a literature review will be performed to give the Identity theft overview, types, scope, stages, recording and reporting, preventing and mitigating steps and techniques, techniques to reduce identity theft, techniques and technologies to manage identity fraud, pattern and trends of identity fraud and challenges and recommendations for managing identity fraud. Then, the sampling in terms of age group, identity crime victim, financial crime, non-financial crime, and profession, medium of attack, lost in attack will be used in this research to ensure that collected samples are in representative of many different people. The samples will be taken from different categories, such as: Articles, research papers, journals and cases. The tools will be Google Forms, IBM SPSS Statistics version 23 and Microsoft Excel.Conclusion: This research was done using the resources which are valid in current situation. There are many future scopes of this research also. Due to limited time and budget, the study could not be done for all or large sample size. Identity fraud is almost similar everywhere in the world hence a global level study of it can help more than the study of particular region as it is a broad domain. In brief, the identity fraud is very vast topic to do research. There were many research done and many more still remained to carry out. It is good as we do more and more deep research on it and those will help reach us more people for awareness programs and the methods of awareness will be optimized. This research can be useful for many further researches and implementation or use of the data. References:Forcht, K. A., Kieschnick, E., Thomas, D. S., & Shorter, J. D. (2007). IDENTITY THEFT: THE NEWEST DIGITAL ATTACK. Retrieved from http://iacis.org/iis/2007/Forcht_Shorter_Thomas.pdf Hedayati, A. (2012, January). An analysis of identity theft: Motives, related frauds, techniques and prevention. Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution . doi:10.5897/JLCR11.044 Finklea, K. M. (2010). Identity Theft: Trends and Issues. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=eM7xRWjJoEUC&oi=fnd&pg=P A1&dq=identity+theft+prevention&ots=Gyyegpcqvm&sig=pRo-GLci8HFSoH90EV1EIAk4kU&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Newman, G. R., & McNally, M. M. (2005). Identity Theft Literature Review. NCJRS. Retrieved from https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/210459.pdf Jewkes, Y., & Yar, M. (2010). Handbook of Internet Crime. New York: Willan Publishing. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=_2TIMDlOWU4C&oi=fnd&pg=P A273&dq=identity+theft+prevention&ots=rdHrwym2ew&sig=qDImolsI2JWEWtE unBua2IHeQeQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Keywords

Identity Fraud, Identity theft awareness, Internet crime, Digital attack

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 11. 2020

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Vojtěch Merunka, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics