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...
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...
Online Romance Scams: Relational Dynamics and Psychological Characteristics of the Victims and Scammers. A Scoping Review
Coluccia, A.; Pozza, A.; Ferretti, F.; Carabellese, F.; Masti, A.; Gualtieri, G. (2020) — Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health
Digital communication tools can help overcome physical, social, and psychological barriers to forming romantic connections. At the same time, online romance scams represent a contemporary form of fraud that has spread in...
A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures
Kim, Hyo-shin; Seo, Jun-bae (2019) — The Police Science Journal
Type: Journal Article
Country: South Korea
The article addresses a rapid uptick in romance scams within Korea, a form of credit fraud conducted through online channels such as social networking sites and email. The scammer’s tactic involves approaching targets, p...
Online romance scams and victimhood
Sorell, T.; Whitty, M. (2019) — Security Journal
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
Tags: victim experience, psychology
Online romance scams target users of dating platforms by siphoning substantial sums of money and inflicting meaningful psychological distress. Those affected frequently blame themselves for the losses and also face blame...
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...
Who can spot an online romance scam?
Whitty, MT. (2019) — Journal of Financial Crime
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
Tags: offender tactics, psychology, AI misuse, risk factors, measurement
This study investigates factors that predict the ability to identify online romance scams, focusing on personality traits, belief systems, domain expertise, and response speed. In an online experiment, 261 participants w...
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...
Victimization Analysis Based On Routine Activitiy Theory for Cyber-Love Scam in Malaysia
Type: Proceedings Article
Country: Malaysia
Tags: victim experience, law enforcement, platform policy, prevention
This study applies Routine Activity Theory (RAT) to examine factors influencing victimization in cyber-love scams in Malaysia. With cases rising sharply alongside technological advances, the research sought to identify d...
Slumdog romance: Facebook love and digital privacy at the margins
Scheiber, Laura; Arora, Payal (2017) — Media, Culture & Society
Type: Journal Article
Country: Netherlands
Tags: platform policy, AI misuse, online dating platforms, cross-cultural
This study frames Facebook as a central arena for social life among economically disadvantaged populations in the global South, consolidating a range of online activities into a single, dominant platform. It notes that i...
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