Romance Scam Research Center

Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims

Whitty, MT. (2018) — Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

Type: Journal Article Country: United Kingdom

Do You Love Me? Psychological Characteristics of Romance Scam Victims, published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, presents a catalog-style overview of how perpetrators exploit online romance scripts a...

The Role of Love stories in Romance Scams: A Qualitative Analysis of Fraudulent Profiles

Christian Kopp; Robert Layton; Jim Sillitoe; Iqbal Gondal (2016) — Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Type: Journal Article Country: Nigeria Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, AI misuse, cross-cultural Methods: interview, qualitative

The Online Romance Scam represents a highly effective form of fraud that imposes substantial financial losses and emotional distress on those targeted. This study develops a perspective intended to help explain why this...

Online frauds: Learning from victims why they fall for these scams

Button, Mark; Nicholls, Carol McNaughton; Kerr, Jane; Owen, Rachael (2014) — Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Type: Journal Article Country: Australia

Across many countries, online fraud has emerged as a major problem, affecting millions of people through a wide diversity of schemes that are carried out online in whole or in part. The article seeks to describe how exte...