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How does Victim Precipitation Theory explain Deviant Behaviours of Internet Romance Offenders? Gamer’s Perspective of Victim Precipitation

Offei, Martin Otu (2021) — International Journal of Technology and Management Research

Type: Journal Article Country: Ghana Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, AI misuse, risk factors, cross-cultural

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...

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...

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...

How Do Individuals Justify and Rationalize their Criminal Behaviors in Online Romance Fraud?

Offei, M.; Andoh-Baidoo, FK.; Ayaburi, EW.; Asamoah, D. (2020) — Information Systems Frontiers

Type: Journal Article Country: Ghana Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, AI misuse

This study investigates how offenders justify and rationalize their participation in online romance fraud (ORF) by applying neutralization theory and denial of risk theory. Unlike most research that focuses on victims, t...

Romance Fraud

Cross, C. (2020) — The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance

Type: Book Chapter Country: Australia Tags: victim experience, AI misuse

Romance fraud constitutes a pattern in which an individual masks financial intent behind a forged romantic connection. Offenders present themselves as consistent, appealing partners to cultivate trust and emotional depen...

Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims

Shaari, AH.; Kamaluddin, MR.; Paizi@Fauzi, WF.; Mohd, M. (2019) — GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies

Type: Journal Article Country: Malaysia

This catalog-style synopsis summarizes a study published in GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, titled Online-Dating Romance Scam in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online Conversations between Scammers and Victims. The wo...

Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims

Whitty, MT. (2018) — Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

Type: Journal Article Country: United Kingdom

Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims, published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, presents a catalog-style overview of how perpetrators exploit online romance scripts a...

Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research

Cross, C.; Dragiewicz, M.; Richards, K. (2018) — The British Journal of Criminology

Type: Journal Article Country: Australia

Understanding Romance Fraud: Insights From Domestic Violence Research frames romance fraud as a form of manipulation that shares features with coercive control and financial abuse described in domestic violence scholarsh...

Case Study: Romance Scams

Yen, TF.; Jakobsson, M. (2016) — Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams

Type: Book Chapter Country: United States

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 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...

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