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Explore questions in Research InsightsRomance scammers make a financial request feel like part of a relationship, including by introducing a supposed investment opportunity. Research documents both repeated scripts and changing demands. It does not establish how often each tactic succeeds or whether explaining these tactics prevents losses.
Participants rated a romance-scam learning tool favorably, and monitored transfers decreased after warning letters. These findings show how people rated a tool and how payments changed after contact—not that either approach prevented financial loss.
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This publication presents a synthetic, human-reviewed corpus of romance-scam and genuine conversations intended for scam-detection and online-safety research. The dataset comprises 404 dialogues, evenly split with 202 sc...
View publication recordThe publication presents a synthetic dialogue dataset designed to support romance scam detection research. It describes 1,000 conversations generated with two paired personas per scenario: scam (Marcus and Sarah) and leg...
View publication recordThis publication provides a neutral synthesis of four research papers in the 2026 issue of the International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, focusing on contemporary cyber scam typologies and defens...
View publication recordThis publication presents a blockchain-forensics case study of a sanctions-linked pig-butchering network, focusing on 29 Bitcoin addresses designated by OFAC as tied to the Prince Group and Chen Zhi. The authors frame th...
View publication recordThe publication provides a neutral, source-grounded synthesis of the hyperpersonal model of computer-mediated communication (CMC) as it stands 25 years after its original articulation. It describes the model as a framewo...
View publication recordThe study aims to validate a human‑supervised triage approach for pig butchering complaints by testing whether multi‑model identifier extraction can recover triage‑relevant forensic identifiers from public complaints. It...
View publication recordThis publication examines catfishing as a predatory online behavior in dating contexts, focusing on how false identities are constructed and used to manipulate others for financial gain or emotional control. The authors...
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