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Explore questions in Research InsightsRomance scammers turn trust into money requests through emergencies or supposed investments. Some reported cases in India also involved physical encounters and coercion. These studies do not establish how common each pathway is or whether explaining the tactics prevents losses.
Participants rated a romance-scam learning tool favorably, and monitored transfers decreased after warning letters. These findings show how people rated a tool and how payments changed after contact—not that either approach prevented financial loss.
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This publication examines crimes and harms connected with gay dating platforms in India, arguing that such offenses are shaped by broader social and legal structures rather than solely by individual behavior. The authors...
View publication recordThe article by Lauren R. Shapiro examines cyber-enabled imposter scams targeting older adults in the United States through the lens of Lifestyle Routine Activity Theory (LRAT). The study analyzes how offenders use social...
View publication recordThis PRISMA-guided systematic review examines Space Transition Theory (STT) and its empirical applications in cybercrime research from 2007 to 2025, identifying 19 peer-reviewed studies that explicitly engage with STT. T...
View publication recordThis publication examines how love fraud operators construct a romantic relationship with victims by exploiting the PERSONAL_RELATION frame within FrameSemantics, focusing on how scripts, phrases, and collocations shape...
View publication recordThis publication investigates online dating romance scams in Iran, focusing on how cultural, legal, and familial dynamics shape scammer tactics and victim experiences. The authors conducted narrative interviews with 20 s...
View publication recordThis study aimed to understand how expectations about meeting a potential date shape deceptive self-presentation in online dating contexts. The researchers exposed heterosexual participants to four meeting contexts—face-...
View publication recordThe study aims to investigate catfishing and online impersonation and to clarify how these phenomena relate to phishing and online dating. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews with sixteen college students fr...
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