Internet romance fraud presents a widespread challenge with outcomes ranging from financial harm and emotional distress to more severe losses. This article investigates how individuals who perpetrate online dating scams...
Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19
Buil-Gil, D.; Zeng, Y. (2021) — Journal of Financial Crime
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
Tags: victim experience, older adults, law enforcement, AI misuse, risk factors, measurement
This piece examines Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19 within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the...
Responding to Romance Scams and Sextortion During The Pandemic.
Jeong, Tae-jin (2021) — Korean Police Studies Review
Type: Journal Article
Country: South Korea
This piece examines Responding to Romance Scams and Sextortion During The Pandemic. within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature, describ...
Romance Scams: Romantic Imagery and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Love exerts a substantial influence on mental well-being, and emotional states tied to love do not require a real-life relationship. Romantic affection can arise in forms that lack frequent or direct contact, including c...
Susceptibility to COVID-19 Scams: The Roles of Age, Individual Difference Measures, and Scam-Related Perceptions
Nolte, Julia; Hanoch, Yaniv; Wood, Stacey; Hengerer, David (2021) — Frontiers in Psychology
Type: Journal Article
Country: Global
Tags: COVID-19 scams, fraud susceptibility, age differences, bullshit receptivity, ad skepticism, impulsivity, risk perception, older adults, victim experience, psychology, AI misuse, risk factors, prevention, measurement
This piece examines Susceptibility to COVID-19 Scams: The Roles of Age, Individual Difference Measures, and Scam-Related Perceptions within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines comm...
The Use of Military Profiles in Romance Fraud Schemes
Cross, C.; Holt, TJ. (2021) — Victims & Offenders
Type: Journal Article
Country: Australia
This catalog entry analyzes the phenomenon of romance fraud in which perpetrators adopt military personas to initiate and sustain online relationships. The focus is on the construction and deployment of military profiles...
Altered brain network organization in romantic love as measured with resting-state fMRI and graph theory
This piece examines Altered brain network organization in romantic love as measured with resting-state fMRI and graph theory within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patte...
Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud
Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo; Edwards, Matthew; Peersman, Claudia; Stringhini, Gianluca; Rashid, Awais; Whitty, Monica (2020) — IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud is positioned as a study of deceptive activity on dating platforms and a proposal for an automated approach to counter it. The article defines common fraud scenarios such as...
Contextualised Cyber Security Awareness Approach for Online Romance Fraud
Dickerson, S.; Apeh, E.; Ollis, G. (2020) — 2020 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC)
Type: Proceedings Article
Country: United Kingdom
Tags: victim experience, platform policy, AI misuse, prevention, measurement
Romance fraud caused substantial financial loss in 2018, with 50 million pounds reported and a 27 percent rise from the prior year, despite increased publicity and guidance on the issue. This pattern indicates that roman...
Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters
Dreijers, G.; Rudziša, V. (2020) — Research in Language
This piece examines Devices of Textual Illusion: Victimization in Romance Scam E-Letters within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature, de...
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