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A Game-Theoretic Approach to Detecting Romance Scams

Nwafor, E. (2023) — New Perspectives in Behavioral Cybersecurity

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This conceptual chapter explains how game theory could model strategic interaction between romance scammers, targets, and detection systems. It argues that an automated detector informed by game-theoretic incentives and likely responses could help identify deception, reduce financial and personal-information theft, and improve trust in online dating services. The accessible abstract presents a modeling approach and anticipated benefits, not a completed deployment. It does not describe a dataset, implementation, comparison baseline, or measured detection performance. The chapter should therefore be treated as a proposed analytical direction for romance-scam detection rather than evidence that a particular automated system is effective.