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Love at First Sleight: A Review of Scammer Techniques in Online Romance Fraud

Kydd, Marc ; Shepherd, Lynsay A. ; Szymkowiak, Andrea ; Johnson, Graham I. (2024) — Springer Proceedings in Complexity

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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-6974-6_18 (opens in a new tab)

Type:   Book Chapter
Country:   United Kingdom
Tags:   AI-Enabled Fraud, Law Enforcement, Literature Review, Romance Scams, Scammer Techniques, Victim Experience
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This review organizes techniques used across the stages of online romance fraud. It contrasts large initial demands with smaller requests that escalate over time and describes a funnel in which offenders make contact, prime a false narrative, manufacture a crisis, isolate the target from outside advice, and move to exploitation. It also discusses sextortion and blackmail when ordinary requests fail or suspicion rises. The authors argue that real scams use more varied pathways than the simple fixed scripts common in awareness campaigns. They propose stage-specific interventions, such as blocking profiles that use known stolen images before contact and flagging conversational warning signs, and call for research on links with social engineering, gender-based violence, and coordinated offender groups.

          

        
        
                  

            
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