Romance Fraud

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

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78440-3_41 (opens in a new tab)

Tags: AI-Enabled Fraud, Cybercrime Handbook, Drug Muling, Money Laundering, Online Dating, Online Economic Crime, Prevention, Romance Scams, Victim Experience, Victimization

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This Palgrave Handbook chapter surveys romance fraud within the handbook's section on online economic crime. It addresses deception through a perceived intimate relationship for financial gain and is a review chapter rather than a reported original empirical study. The locally held file contains only the handbook contents and index, while accessible chapter metadata identifies the author, placement, page range, and extensive reference base but provides no chapter abstract or findings. This replacement is therefore intentionally narrow: it does not attribute a sample, formal analytic method, measured effects, or specific prevention conclusions to material that has not been verified from the chapter text.

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