Scams in modern societies: how does China differ from the world?
This research addresses the problem of understanding and counteracting scams for policymakers and individuals in China, providing an incremental comparative analysis.
This paper examines high-profile scams in China, proposing a theoretical framework to analyze psychological, situational, and social factors contributing to their success. The framework is also used to explore countermeasures and identify differences between Chinese and Western scams.
We study a set of high-profile scams that were well engineered and have hit people hard in China in recent years. We propose a simple but novel theoretical framework to examine psychological, situational and social fabric factors that have played a role in these scams. We also use this framework as a tool to explore scam countermeasures. In so doing, we identify how these Chinese scams differ from their Western counterparts.