If you’ve ever been defrauded, you may have found it hard to deal with. I know I did, not just financially, but also emotionally and psychologically. For weeks and months, even years after the event, I would find myself wrestling with a whole range of unpleasant emotions and dark thoughts. These lingered once I recovered the bulk of the money and saw the perpetrator sent to prison.
Allerede før cyberkriminalitet var et ord, var kriminologer klar over, at virkningen af bedrageri on a victim’s health and well-being could be more painful to them than the financial losses they suffered. Today, some researchers are working to quantify this “non-financial impact,” and they’re finding that it may be even greater for online or digitally enabled scams and cons, a form of criminal activity hitting crisis levels.
While “crisis level” sounds alarmist, folks in the counter-cyberkriminalitet community with whom I’ve spoken recently — from law enforcement to cybersecurity pros to victim support groups — say “crisis” is an apt term for the current situation. The general public tends to agree. A nylig undersøgelse of Americans aged 18 and older by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) concluded, “Scams — and seemingly constant scam attempts by phone, email and text — have grown so pervasive, two-thirds of Americans say they’re at a crisis level.”
Jeg er klar over, og har skrevet om, the fact that efforts to measure the scale and scope of crime don’t have a great track record. However, I think this chart of the annual reports of financial losses reported to the FBI’s Center for internetkriminalitet og -klage er en retfærdig gengivelse af den generelle tendens.
Note that annual losses broke through the $1 billion mark in 2015 and soared past $10 billion in 2022. That’s bad enough in itself, but there’s reason to believe the value of the impact of these crimes on victim health and well-being could be more than four times that amount.
Research carried out in the UK in 2021 used the social science concept of “subjective well-being” to calculate a “life satisfaction” cost for being victimized by scammers and fraudsters. It came to £2,509 ($3,200) per year, per victim for fraud in general. If the fraud was online, this rose to £3,684 ($4,650) per year.
Den "Svindel og subjektivt velvære” study by the UK Consumers Association known as Which? clearly established that being a scam victim is associated with significantly lower levels of life satisfaction, lower levels of happiness, and higher levels of anxiety. It is also associated with “people self-reporting worse general health.”
Hvilken? resultaterne var baseret på officielle statistikker, der viser, at det gennemsnitlige økonomiske tab, som 4.5 millioner ofre for bedrageri i England og Wales led i regnskabsåret 2021-22, var £600. Det summerer til £2.7 milliarder, mindre end en fjerdedel af £11.3 milliarder hit til subjektivt velvære (baseret på omkostningerne nævnt ovenfor og vægtet for cyber- og ikke-cybersager). Det er på dette grundlag, at jeg ser fordele ved at erklære cyberkriminalitet i almindelighed, og digitalt aktiveret bedrageri i særdeleshed, en folkesundhedskrise, der påvirker millioner af mennesker i USA, Storbritannien og mange andre lande.
Det er klart, at vi har brug for mere forskning, men det er vigtigt at vide, at Hvilken? resultater er i overensstemmelse med banebrydende 2015 undersøgelse af Modic og Anderson. They convincingly demonstrated that “Internet fraud’s emotional impact is a major component of victimization … participants consistently reported emotional impact as more severe than financial impact across all fraud types.” Modic and Anderson also noted, “With the new cybercrimes, the pattern is much more like robbery, where only £109 is stolen but the additional costs include £483 for health services, £1,011 for lost output, and a whopping £3,048 for distress.”
Jeg ville elske at se flere cybersikkerhedsforskere udforske dette aspekt af cyberkriminalitet, fordi de potentielle gevinster er enorme. For eksempel, hvilken? forskning blev brugt af lobbyister til øget virksomhedsindsats for at forhindre svindel. Det Britiske parlament is now enacting a “failure to prevent fraud offence … to hold companies to account for fraud occurring on their systems and encourage better corporate behaviours.”
Og hvad med dette: En storbydel med omkring 300,000 mennesker i England brugte forskning i sundhedsvirkningerne af svindel til med succes at søge om finansiering fra National Health Service for at komme i gang en regional anti-fiduskampagne. The team reckons that in the past 12 months it prevented £1 million from being stolen, with total savings of £9 million since the campaign began in late 2017. (The NHS Better Care Fund backs projects “to support people to live healthy, independent and dignified lives.”)
In summary: Cybercrimes like phishing, fraud, and scams, hurt people in ways that have serious implications for public health policy. Targeted spending on cybercrime prevention and response can be justified as a public health measure. Reducing digitally enabled crimes against individuals should be part of every nation’s population health management policy, strategy, and budget. Companies and third-sector entities should seek to fund, research, develop, and implement novel interdisciplinary approaches to reducing cybercrime and alleviating its harm to victims, both financial and non-financial.
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