- Title
- Descriptive data mining on fraudulent online dating profiles
- Creator
- Pan, Jinjian A.; Winchester, Donald; Land, Lesley; Watters, Paul
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33295
- Identifier
- vital:4352
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-620-47172-5
- Abstract
- The increasing ease of access to the World Wide Web and email harvesting tools has enabled spammers to target a wider audience. The problem is where scams are widely encountered in day to day environmental to individuals from all walks of life and result in millions of dollars in financial loss as well as emotional trauma (Newman 2005). This paper aims to analyse and examine the structure of Romance Fraud, in a bid to understand and detect Romance Fraud profiles. We focus on scams that utilise the medium of dating websites. The primary indicators of Romance Fraud identified in the literature include social factors, scam characteristics and content....
- Publisher
- Pretoria, South Africa University of Pretoria
- Relation
- Proceedings of ECIS 2010, The 18th European Conference on Information Systems 2010 p. 1-11
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Romance scams in online dating; Information systems security (ISS); Identity Fraud; Identity theft and identity deception
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