The creation of trust and deception regarding fraud. An interactionistic study.

该研究项目从社会学的角度探讨了犯罪欺诈现象。它侧重于常见和广泛使用的“骗局和计划”。这些骗局和计划涉及精心设计的程序，通过这些程序，人们被欺骗，信任地授予某人访问他们个人资产的权限。许多这样的骗局已经成功使用了很长时间。它们是经过验证的、令人信服的欺骗形式。这使得它们成为一个有趣的研究课题，可以探索这一现象的两个未被充分研究的方面：首先，研究在具体的互动中执行诈骗时，信任和欺骗是如何产生的问题；其次，研究欺诈者如何获得必要的知识来做到这一点，以及这些知识是如何形成和转移的。这些问题在定性研究中进行了调查，在此过程中，对参与欺诈活动的行动者作为“罪犯”、“受害者”和“警察调查员”进行了探索性访谈。这些数据将辅以对刑事档案的文件分析。该研究项目侧重于典型的骗局，如虚假信用额度和贷款、投资欺诈、敲诈交易、祖父母骗局和浪漫骗局。通过分析这些不同的骗局，可以阐述欺诈互动和欺诈知识的基本方面。此外，这揭示了信任和欺骗是如何在日常生活互动中产生的基本现象。

The research project explores the phenomenon of criminal fraud from a sociological perspective. It focuses on common and widely used 'scams and schemes'. These scams and schemes address choreographed procedures, through which people are deceived to trustfully grant someone access to their individual assets. Many of these scams are being used successfully for a long time. They are proven and convincing forms of deception. This makes them an interesting research topic for exploring two understudied aspects of this phenomenon: First to look into the question of how trust and deception are created when scams are executed in concrete interactions and second to pursue the matter of how fraudsters acquire the necessary knowledge to do so and how this knowledge is shaped and transferred. These issues are investigated in a qualitative study in the course of which explorative interviews, with actors involved in fraudulent activities as 'offenders', as 'victims' and as 'police investigators', are conducted. This data will be supplemented with document analyses of criminal files. The research project focusses on typical scams like fake credit lines and loans, investment fraud, rip-deal, grandparent scam and romance scam. By analyzing these different scams, basic aspects of fraudulent interactions and fraud-knowledge can be elaborated. Moreover this reveals the basic phenomenon of how trust and deception are created in daily life interactions.