- Title
- The role of love stories in Romance Scams : A qualitative analysis of fraudulent profiles
- Creator
- Kopp, Christian; Layton, Robert; Sillitoe, Jim; Gondal, Iqbal
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/162077
- Identifier
- vital:12621
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.56227
- Identifier
- ISBN:0974-2891
- Abstract
- The Online Romance Scam is a very successful scam which causes considerable financial and emotional damage to its victims. In this paper, we provide a perspective that might be helpful to explain the success of this scam. In a similar way to the "The Nigerian letter", we propose that the scam techniques appeal to strong emotions, which are clearly involved in Romantic relationships. We also assume that the same success factors found in normal relationships contribute to the success of the romance scam. In an exploratory study using a qualitative analysis of fraudulent profiles from an international dating website, we examined this assumption. The findings show that personal affinities related to personal romantic imaginations, which are described by personal love stories, play an important role in the success of a romance scam. © 2016 International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC).
- Publisher
- Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
- Relation
- International Journal of Cyber Criminology Vol. 9, no. 2 (2016), p. 205-216
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015 International Journal of Cyber Criminology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This license does not permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1602 Criminology; 1801 Law; Crime; Love story; Personal love story; Relationships; Romance scam
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