Type: Journal Article
Country: Finland
Tags: AI misuse
The paper analyzes romance scams as a distinct and serious form of cybercrime, emphasizing that these schemes rely on emotional manipulation rather than purely financial deception. Offenders build fabricated romantic rel...
The Deceptive Allure: Understanding and Combating Cryptocurrency Pig Butchering Scams
Krause, David (2025) — SSRN Electronic Journal
Type: Journal Article
The Deceptive Allure: Understanding and Combating Cryptocurrency Pig Butchering Scams provides a neutral, catalog-style examination of a form of online fraud that has emerged within cryptocurrency ecosystems. The work de...
Therapeutic but toxic spaces: Romance fraud victimization from a psychosocial perspective
Yoshida, Yutaka (2025) — Journal of Economic Criminology
Therapeutic but toxic spaces: Romance fraud victimization from a psychosocial perspective is positioned within economic criminology to explore how intimate-deception operates at the junction of individual psychology and...
Uncovering vulnerability to fraud and scams among adult victims in online and offline contexts: A systematic review
Dadà, Chiara Barbara; Colautti, Laura; Rosi, Alessia; Cavallini, Elena; Antonietti, Alessandro; Iannello, Paola (2025) — Computers in Human Behavior
Type: Journal Article
Country: Italy
This catalog-style synopsis summarizes a systematic review of adult vulnerability to fraud and scams in online and offline contexts, as published in Computers in Human Behavior. The review aggregates empirical work to ma...
Connecting Chinese and American Scam Victims examines how fraud experiences are shaped by cross-cultural and cross-border contexts, focusing on victimization in two national settings. The work surveys how digital platfor...
Hyperpersonal feedback and online romance fraud: an empirical examination
Wang, Fangzhou; Dickinson, Timothy (2024) — Journal of Crime and Justice
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This catalog-style synopsis surveys an empirical investigation into hyperpersonal feedback in online romance and its relationship to fraud. The study frames online dating interactions through hyperpersonal dynamics, wher...
More Than Just a “Bad” Online Experience: Risk Factors and Characteristics of Catfishing Fraud Victimization
This study examines the relatively underexplored area of catfishing victimization—cases where individuals are deceived online but not necessarily defrauded financially. Using survey data from 1,511 social media and datin...
“I knew it was a scam”: Understanding the triggers for recognizing romance fraud
Cross, C. (2023) — Criminology & Public Policy
Type: Journal Article
Country: Australia
Tags: victim experience, platform policy, AI misuse, prevention
This article examines the factors that contribute to the moment a romance fraud victimization becomes realized, drawing on 1015 reports submitted to Scamwatch, Australia’s online fraud reporting portal, during the period...
Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations
Dickinson, T.; Wang, F. (2023) — Deviant Behavior
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This piece examines Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns documented in the literature,...
Open Access: Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud
Cross, C.; Lee, M. (2023) — The Link between Specific Forms of Online and Offline Victimization
Type: Book Chapter
Country: Australia
Tags: victim experience, AI misuse
This study analyzes a set of 3,259 romance fraud reports submitted by individuals to Scamwatch, the Australian online platform for reporting fraud, for the period spanning July 2018 through July 2019 inclusive. The aim i...
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