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Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective

Proliferation of e-commerce and the advent of social media utilization have contributed to the significant progress of social commerce around the world. Similar to existing internet applications for businesses, such as conventional e-commerce and mobile commerce, interactions and socialization on on...

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Main Authors: Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin, Rusly, Fariza Hanim
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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HF Commerce
T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/17543/1/27_ICoEC2015%20185-189.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/17543/
http://icoec.my/index.php/proceedings/5-icoec-2015-proceedings/110-falling-prey-for-social-media-shopping-frauds-the-victims-perspective
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spelling my.uum.repo.175432016-04-12T04:45:10Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17543/ Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin Rusly, Fariza Hanim HF Commerce T Technology (General) Proliferation of e-commerce and the advent of social media utilization have contributed to the significant progress of social commerce around the world. Similar to existing internet applications for businesses, such as conventional e-commerce and mobile commerce, interactions and socialization on online medium (with less visibility of sellers and buyers physical presence) over the social media also possess risks of unreliable and fraudulent transactions. Despite the informed risks of online dealings, fraudulent social commerce incidents are growing. While the existing literature on social commerce provided insights on social commerce development in terms of its advantages and adoption, dearth of studies offer understanding of the dark side of social commerce, particularly with regards to the occurrence of social commerce frauds.This proposed qualitative study intends to bridge this gap, with the focus to examine the occurrence and the nature of the social commerce fraud, and consequently to understand how and why shoppers become victims of social commerce fraud.Findings are expected to contribute towards conceptual understanding of social commerce fraud phenomenon and offer inputs to increase awareness among social commerce community. 2015-10-20 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17543/1/27_ICoEC2015%20185-189.pdf Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin and Rusly, Fariza Hanim (2015) Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective. In: International Conference on E-Commerce (ICoEC) 2015, 20-22 Oktober 2015, Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA. http://icoec.my/index.php/proceedings/5-icoec-2015-proceedings/110-falling-prey-for-social-media-shopping-frauds-the-victims-perspective
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topic HF Commerce
T Technology (General)
spellingShingle HF Commerce
T Technology (General)
Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin
Rusly, Fariza Hanim
Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
description Proliferation of e-commerce and the advent of social media utilization have contributed to the significant progress of social commerce around the world. Similar to existing internet applications for businesses, such as conventional e-commerce and mobile commerce, interactions and socialization on online medium (with less visibility of sellers and buyers physical presence) over the social media also possess risks of unreliable and fraudulent transactions. Despite the informed risks of online dealings, fraudulent social commerce incidents are growing. While the existing literature on social commerce provided insights on social commerce development in terms of its advantages and adoption, dearth of studies offer understanding of the dark side of social commerce, particularly with regards to the occurrence of social commerce frauds.This proposed qualitative study intends to bridge this gap, with the focus to examine the occurrence and the nature of the social commerce fraud, and consequently to understand how and why shoppers become victims of social commerce fraud.Findings are expected to contribute towards conceptual understanding of social commerce fraud phenomenon and offer inputs to increase awareness among social commerce community.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin
Rusly, Fariza Hanim
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author_sort Abdul Talib, Yurita Yakimin
title Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
title_short Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
title_full Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
title_fullStr Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
title_full_unstemmed Falling prey for social media shopping frauds: The victims’ perspective
title_sort falling prey for social media shopping frauds: the victims’ perspective
publishDate 2015
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/17543/1/27_ICoEC2015%20185-189.pdf
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http://icoec.my/index.php/proceedings/5-icoec-2015-proceedings/110-falling-prey-for-social-media-shopping-frauds-the-victims-perspective
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