- Title
- “I am your perfect online partner" analysis of dating profiles used in cybercrime
- Creator
- Kopp, Christian; Sillitoe, James; Gondal, Iqbal
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/182164
- Identifier
- vital:16070
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25275/apjabssv3i2ss5
- Identifier
- ISBN:2205-6033
- Abstract
- Internet Online Dating has become an influential mainstream social practice facilitating the finding of a partner. Unscrupulous operators have identified its potential and started to use this platform for identity theft in form of so called Online Romance Scams. Quickly, this cybercrime has become very successful and thus, an increasing threat in the social networking environment. So far, very little is known about its structure and the reason for its success, and this needs to be known in order to be able to fight it efficiently. This research tries to contribute to this knowledge, and argues that scammers use so-called ‘Love Stories’, which represent personal affinities related to romantic relationships, to their benefit when tailoring common narratives as part of fraudulent online profiles to attract their victims. We look at these different types of ‘Personal Love Stories’ and discuss how they can be used in this type of scam, followed by a qualitative analysis of fraudulent profiles from three different international websites to examine this assumption
- Relation
- Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Business and Social Studies Vol. 3, no. 2 (2017), p. 207-217
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ Asia Pacific Institute of Advanced Research (APIAR)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour; Internet Crime; Online Dating; Love Stories
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