- Title
- Online romance scam: Expensive e-living for romantic happiness
- Creator
- Kopp, Christian; Sillitoe, James; Gondal, Iqbal; Layton, Robert
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Conference proceedings
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181145
- Identifier
- vital:15883
- Identifier
- http://aisel.aisnet.org/bled2016/36
- Abstract
- The Online Romance Scam is a very successful scam which causes considerable financial and emotional damage to its victims. It is based on building a relationship which establishes a deep trust that causes victims to voluntarily transfer funds to the scammer. The aim of this research is to explore online dating scams as a type of e-Living which initially creates happiness for the victim in a virtual romantic relationship, but tragically then causes the victim to be separated from his or her savings. Using narrative research methodology, this research will establish a model of the romance scam structure and its variations regarding human romantic attitudes, and will develop a theory which explains how the victim is moved through the phases of the scam. Findings of this research will contribute to the knowledge of the Online Romance Scam as e-Crime and provide information about the structure and the development of the modus operandi which can be used to identify an online relationship as a scam at an early phase in order to prevent significant harm to the victim.
- Publisher
- Association for Information Systems Electronic Library, AISeL; United States
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 29th Bled eConference: Digital Economy (BLED 2016), Slovenia, pp.175-189 p. 15
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- © 2016 Association for Information Systems Electronic Library, AISeL. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- Online Romance Scam; e-Living; e-Crime; Online relationship; Software and application security; Data and information privacy; System and network security
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