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Title Series 1: Establishing a National Integrated Response System to Address the Surge in Multi-Victim Fraud Crimes Hit 251
Publication 2025-07-30

Institute for Future Strategy Issue Brief, July Vol. 39
“Building a Nationwide Integrated Response System to the Rapid Surge in Large-Scale Fraud Crimes (1)”

This issue brief closely examines the patterns and severity of large-scale fraud crimes—such as telecommunications and financial fraud, investment scams, and smishing—that have been rapidly increasing in recent years. Fraud crimes are not limited to monetary damage; they also devastate individual lives and undermine social trust. In particular, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of non-face-to-face fraud crimes has surged.

However, with current arrest rates remaining low, the limitations of existing fragmented countermeasures have become evident. This has heightened the need for international cooperation in the areas of prevention, detection, and victim recovery. The brief provides a comprehensive analysis of the seriousness of large-scale fraud crimes, highlighting factors such as the cellular (cell-like) structure of criminal organisations, the globalisation of crime patterns, the indiscriminate targeting of victims and concentration of harm on vulnerable groups, and the unlimited scalability of damage.

It also reviews in depth the response strategies of major countries, including the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, and Taiwan. As a policy alternative, the brief proposes the establishment of a four-stage response system—prevention, reporting, action, and cooperation—and underscores the need to create a nationwide integrated control tower to effectively respond to fraud crimes.

Keywords
Large-scale fraud crimes, national response strategies, international cooperation, four-stage response system, integrated control tower

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