Yen, TF.; Jakobsson, M. (2016) — Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams
Type: Book Chapter
Country: United States
Methods: experiment
This chapter provides a neutral overview of romance scams and describes an experimental effort to establish measurable attributes for study, including a data collection tool called the simulated spam filter. The text out...
The Role of Love stories in Romance Scams: A Qualitative Analysis of Fraudulent Profiles
Christian Kopp; Robert Layton; Jim Sillitoe; Iqbal Gondal (2016) — Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Online Romance Scam represents a highly effective form of fraud that imposes substantial financial losses and emotional distress on those targeted. This study develops a perspective intended to help explain why this...
Imagining the Absent Partner: Intimacy and Imagination in Long-Distance Relationships
Jurkane-Hobein, Iveta (2015) — Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences
Type: Journal Article
Country: Latvia
This piece examines IMAGINING THE ABSENT PARTNER - INTIMACY AND IMAGINATION IN LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in...
The online dating romance scam: The psychological impact on victims – both financial and non-financial
Whitty, MT.; Buchanan, T. (2015) — Criminology & Criminal Justice
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
Tags: victim experience, psychology, law enforcement, platform policy
This study explores the psychological consequences of online dating romance scams, a form of fraud that combines financial harm with the collapse of a personal relationship. Unlike victims of other mass marketing frauds,...
Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams
Button, Mark; Nicholls, Carol McNaughton; Kerr, Jane; Owen, Rachael (2014) — Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
Type: Journal Article
Country: Australia
Across many countries, online fraud has emerged as a major problem, affecting millions of people through a wide diversity of schemes that are carried out online in whole or in part. The article seeks to describe how exte...
This piece examines Anatomy of the online dating romance scam within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature, describes how offenders culti...
The online dating romance scam: causes and consequences of victimhood
Buchanan, T.; Whitty, MT. (2013) — Psychology, Crime & Law
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
This catalog-style synopsis surveys the topic of online dating romance scams as presented in Psychology, Crime & Law. The article defines the phenomenon as deceitful relationship-building undertaken through digital datin...
The Scammers Persuasive Techniques Model: Development of a Stage Model to Explain the Online Dating Romance Scam
Whitty, MT. (2013) — British Journal of Criminology
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
This article develops a stage-based explanatory framework to account for online dating romance scams. The proposed model traces how persuasive techniques are organized and deployed across successive phases of a scam enco...
The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime
Whitty, MT.; Buchanan, T. (2012) — Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
This entry examines online romance scams as a form of cybercrime characterized by deliberate deception within internet relationships initiated on dating sites, apps, or social networks. Perpetrators cultivate emotional c...
Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman<sup>*</sup>
Steyerl, H. (2011) — October
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This work is presented as a catalog-style inquiry into how written address and emotional rhetoric operate within the framework of romance and deception. The item treats the epistolary form as a vehicle for affect, tracin...
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