Bridging the Protection Gap: Innovative Approaches to Shield Older Adults from AI-Enhanced Scams
Herrera, LD; Van Sickle, London; Podhradsky, Ashley (2024) — 2024 Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium (CARS)
Type: Proceedings Article
Country: United States
Tags: artificial intelligence, hypothetical case, vingette, defense strategy, future threats, cybercrime, trends, diffusion Of innovation theory, federal trade commission, deepfake
Bridging the Protection Gap: Innovative Approaches to Shield Older Adults from AI-Enhanced Scams is presented as a session at the 2024 Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium (CARS). The catalog entry notes a cross-discip...
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate
Wang, F. (2024) — Trends in Organized Crime
Type: Journal Article
Country: United States
Tags: victim experience, offender tactics, platform policy, AI misuse, social engineering, prevention
This study explores the intersection of human trafficking and online romance fraud within the context of the pig-butchering scam (Sha Zhu Pan, 杀猪盘). While the scam is widely recognized for combining romance and invest...
Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud
Cross, C.; Lee, M. (2022) — Victims & Offenders
Type: Journal Article
Country: Australia
Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud is a cataloging-style examination of how fear of crime arises and persists among individuals who engage with or fall victim to online romantic deception. The di...
Love scam in cyberspace
Thiel, C. (2020) — Cyberkriminologie
Type: Book Chapter
Country: Germany
Internet-based romance fraud refers to deceptive practices in the context of online dating, where perpetrators make contact with potential victims under false identities. Typical profiles use attractive images, credible...
Case Study: Romance Scams
Yen, TF.; Jakobsson, M. (2016) — Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams
Type: Book Chapter
Country: United States
Methods: experiment
This chapter provides a neutral overview of romance scams and describes an experimental effort to establish measurable attributes for study, including a data collection tool called the simulated spam filter. The text out...
