Poster: Longitudinal Analysis of Romance Scam Infrastructure Evolution: Evidence of Strategic Legitimization
Ryu, Nayeon; Suh, Heeyeong; Lee, Seyoung (2025) — Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Type: Proceedings Article
Country: South Korea
This poster provides a longitudinal analysis of the infrastructure that underpins romance scams, tracing how the supporting systems and operational practices have evolved across an extended time frame. The discussion cen...
Romance Fraud: Its Repercussions on Victims’ Wellbeing
Gauci, Christine; Vella, Mary Grace (2025) — Women & Criminal Justice
Type: Journal Article
Romance fraud refers to deceitful manipulation in which a perpetrator uses a fabricated romantic persona to induce trust and financial or other gain from an unsuspecting partner. The phenomenon unfolds across online dati...
Romanssihuijaus - rakkauden varjolla tehty kyberrikos
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...
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong
Akartuna, Eray Arda; Yeung, Felix Sin Wai; Manning, Matthew; Bish, Alexandre (2025) — Trends in Organized Crime
Type: Journal Article
Country: Hong Kong
Tags: Deception, Fraud, Pig butchering, Romance scams, Covid-19, Hong Kong, Routine Activity Theory, Crime displacement, victim experience, risk factors, measurement, cross-cultural
This study analyzes how the Covid-19 crisis affected deception-related crime in Hong Kong by examining a period from February 2020 to June 2023. The researchers apply an Auto ARIMA time series approach to contrast crime...
Strategic business movements? The migration of online romance fraudsters from Nigeria to Ghana
Lazarus, S.; Button, M.; Garba, KH.; Soares, AB.; Hughes, M. (2025) — Journal of Economic Criminology
Type: Journal Article
Country: United Kingdom
This catalog entry surveys the topic of cross-border movement among actors involved in online romance fraud, focusing on a shift from Nigeria to Ghana. The article situates the phenomenon within the broader field of econ...
The Gamification of Online Romance Fraud through Offenders’ Cards
Abubakari, Yushawu; Oseh-Ovarah, Valeen (2025) — Digital Threats: Research and Practice
This study addresses the persistence of online romance fraud in Ghana and treats offenders as strategic players within a game-theoretic framework. By viewing fraudulent encounters as a strategic contest, the researchers...
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...
Understanding the Characteristics of Pig Butchering Scams: Impact on Victims and Challenges for Law Enforcement in Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
Country: Indonesia
Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, law enforcement, platform policy, money mules, AI misuse, online dating platforms, cross-cultural
The study analyzes the pig-butchering scam, a cyber-enabled form of investment fraud that has expanded rapidly in Indonesia since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also known as Sha Zhu Pan, this manipulative scheme bl...
“If U Don't Pay they will Share the Pics”: Exploring Sextortion in the Context of Romance Fraud
Cross, Cassandra; Holt, Karen; O'Malley, Roberta Liggett (2024) — Scams, Cons, Frauds, and Deceptions
Type: Book Chapter
Country: Australia
Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, AI misuse
This piece examines “If U Don't Pay they will Share the Pics”: Exploring Sextortion in the Context of Romance Fraud within the broader context of online fraud and mediated communication. It outlines common patterns docum...
A qualitative investigation of the emotional, physiological, financial, and legal consequences of online romance scams in the United States
Cole, R. (2024) — Journal of Economic Criminology
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
This catalog-style study provides a qualitative examination of the consequences associated with online romance scams in the United States, emphasizing emotional, physiological, financial, and legal dimensions. Situated w...
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