Basic Crime Prevention Measures of Fraud in Business Environment

 The purpose of this study is to identify the basic measures of crime prevention of fraud in the business environment based on situational, social and criminal prevention and prioritization among them for purposeful planning and resource saving.

 In terms of its objectives this research is of an applied type, and in terms of the nature it is a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) study; in the qualitative phase by conducting semi-structural interviews and in the quantitative phase a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity was confirmed using face validity method. Its validation quality has been done by holding meetings with experts, and finally with the opinions of the supervisor and counselors. The reliability of the quantitative method is measured by the calculation of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.6). The qualitative statistical population includes law enforcement managers and experts in the field of fraud by targeted sampling. The sample size of qualitative phase is 17 people and the quantitative phase is149. The statistical data were analyzed utilizing exploratory factor analysis and Bartlett's test and the KMO index.

 In the three dimensions of prevention, the KMO index was more than 0.8 and the significant level of the Bartlett test is less than 0.05, which indicates their utility and this is the assurance that the sample size is sufficient.

 In the situational prevention dimension, 7 factors of upgrading the country's infrastructure to authenticate individuals, integrating the databases of fraud, formulating processes and systematic business activities, etc.; in the social prevention dimension, 4 factors of gaining people's trust and informing the crime of fraud by police, training and informing the latest fraud prevention techniques, etc.; in the criminal prevention dimension, 4 factors of scientific analysis of fraud, optimization and use of powerful police to prevent fraud crime and so on were extracted.