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 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...
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,...
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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