Abstract Online romance scams defraud dating website users of large amounts of money and inflict serious psychological harm. Victims of these scams often blame themselves for their losses and are blamed by others. We consider whether victims actually do share responsibility with the scammer for their losses. Three sorts of Read more…
Abstract The online dating romance scam is an Advance Fee Fraud, typically conducted by international criminal groups via online dating sites and social networking sites. This type of mass-marketing fraud (MMF) is the most frequently reported type of MMF in most Western countries. This study examined the psychological characteristics of Read more…
Abstract Purpose – This paper develops a theoretical framework to predict susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was constructed to examine whether personality, socio-demographic characteristics, and online routine activities predicted one-off and repeat victimhood of cyber-fraud. Overall, 11,780 participants completed a survey (one-off victims, N = 728; repeat Read more…
Awais Rashid, Alistair Baron, Paul Rayson, Corinne May-Chahal, Phil Greenwood and James Walkerdine ABSTRACT The Isis toolkit offers the sophisticated capabilities required to analyze digital personas and provide investigators with clues to the identity of the individual or group hiding behind one or more personas. Date: April 2013 Published: Computer (Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Read more…
Matthew Edwards, Stephen Wattam, Paul Rayson and Awais Rashid Abstract Identity resolution capability for social networking profiles is important for a range of purposes, from open-source intelligence applications to forming semantic web connections. Yet replication of research in this area is hampered by the lack of access to ground-truth Read more…