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ONLINE INVESTMENT FRAUD: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF VICTIM PERCEPTION IN CHENNAI. R. John Wesley1, Dr. S. Latha 2 1 MSC (Criminology and Forensic Science), DR. M.G.R Educational and Research Institute, Chennai. 2 Assistant Professor in Department of Criminology, University of Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------online investment fraud based on the victim Abstract - Now a day, various types of online perceptive. Now a day, many people are involved in investment fraud has increased, while the number of victim became outraged and also there had so many the investment to gain the extra money for maintain unreported case on online investment fraud. This study their comfortable life, investment platform are based on how a people get into the online investment available in online platform to invest the money but frauds on the perspective of victim and the role of they happen many fraud incident in online, the raider social media platform and other online application in are target the people those are invest the money on the online investment frauds based on the victim online. Its will be easier for raider to commit the concern. Through the combination of survey and crime in online for money and also easy to escape interview method to examine the factor that individual from the investor. In this study based on victim gets into the investment fraud and role of the online perceptive, major finding will be demographical application in the online investment fraud. This study factor of victim like age of the victim- their education contains 51 victims of online investment fraud in qualification- marital status- employment status of Chennai and that focused on the quantitative analysis victim- their investment knowledge to invest the of the victim profile, various types of online investment money, types of investment and platform their fraud and comparative analysis of rate of choose by victim, observed any criminal activity by victimization based on the gender and crime, raider through the online and report behavior like indicating factor of individual in online investment reporting the fraud – reporting platform – response and role of the online application in the online from reporting platform – money recovery from investment frauds, criminal activity by scammer and raider. This finding will be analyzed with data that response of report behavior. given by the victim of online investment frauds. First of all , online investment is process of investing the money or buying in the online market , gold, land, mutual fund, crypto currency, etc. through the online platform. Now a day , there are so many online platform available for investment and also many startup companies are available to be a brokage for online investment to the common people. In online investment, Investors it including those new to the field, can access a variety of educational resources on numerous internet platforms. These resources encompass instructional videos, online seminars, and analytical tools, enabling individuals to make wellinformed investment choices. It had some risk and may had chance to lose the money in the online investing because the financial product could be changing every time , it could high value and its could be low and also there had many fraud investing site in online platform before investing , there should verified the site or clarified the site with the expert.
Keyword: online investment fraud, victim profile, indicating factor, role of online application, report behavior. 1.INTRODUCTION In 21st century, the society will be more modernize and there had develop technologies like smart phone, internet, cloud server that use in companies for storing the employee data and companies’ data etc. . In this century, there will be more digitize in every category of data that use in every format like companies, study material, educational institute, etc. . and crime also modernized and evolve in every development of technology like cybercrime, cyber frauds and other crime relate to computer. This study based on one of the cybercrime, tilted as “Online investment frauds: An Empirical study on victim perception in Chennai”, in this study focus on © 2025, IRJET
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