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Explore questions in Research InsightsRomance scammers can use emergencies or supposed investments to extract money, and some use romantic promises to obtain sexual contact or imagery. Reported cases also involve physical coercion. These studies describe tactics without establishing how common each pathway is or whether awareness lessons prevent harm.
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 study examines how Ghanaian youth perceive and experience “social media marriage,” a form of union initiated or influenced by digital platforms, and whether these online connections function as legitimate relationsh...
View publication recordThe publication presents a technical-academic report that undertakes a narrative, comparative meta-analysis and a systematic synthesis of evidence on romantic betrayal fraud conducted in digital contexts. Its stated aim...
View publication recordThis publication reports on a qualitative study of online scams affecting elderly victims in Thailand, aiming to map how scams operate and how scammers are organized. The study asks what forms online scams take, why olde...
View publication recordThis publication investigates fraud victimization among older adults who had prior exposure to mass marketing fraud, focusing on how loneliness and living arrangements relate to polyvictimization across fraud types. The...
View publication recordThis study examined how common dating-app use and cyber-fraud are among emerging adults in Hong Kong and how these experiences relate to mental health. Using an online, self-administered survey, the researchers recruited...
View publication recordThis study examines love scams on Instagram in Indonesia, focusing on how perpetrators manipulate women financially and emotionally. Using a critical discourse approach, the authors analyze the Instagram direct-message e...
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