Question

Why facebook committed this fraud? (Relate to fraud triangle and to Kohlberg’s stages of ethical development)

Answer 1

Explanation :

Facebook is a social media platform where people creates its own account, and share their photo, interests and their personal details, also chats with their friends.

IT sector Facebook fraud is related to threat to data or information provided by user which is obtained in wrongful manner and is used by persons for fraud, financial benefits or for deception.

Facebook is constantly accused of committing frauds against its uses for understanding Facebook friend we need to understand the meaning of social media platform and data fraud.

Data fraud is often committed by data breaches i.e the theft of personnel and sensitive bank details related details by hacker or unauthorised user, who uses it to commit cyber crimes.
The example of such data is social security number, personal identification number, passwords.

The Facebook fraud can be related with kohlberg's requirement theory.

kohlberg theory has been defined in three stages ie

1. Pre-conventional
2. conventional
3. Post conventional

The fraud committed falls in first stage of pre-conventional.
In this stage, the unauthorised person asks a question to himself (what's in it for me?).

Here right behaviour is defined as it everything is right if it is in their interest. wrongdoer is concerned only about his individual interest .

The fraud triangle and Facebook fraud is also related with third stage that affects the workers to commit fraud. i.e
Rationalization : when the fraud done by the workers are justifiable by them to their internal moral.

Many a times frauders are not seeing them self as criminal and are victim of circumstances.
Rationals are based on certain factors such as need to look after their family or job dissatisfaction from the income earned.