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Abstract
Romance fraud has rapidly increased over the past decade and has become one of the most devastating forms of fraud around. By impersonating a victim's 'true love’, scammers can exploit victims’ trust and money, leaving victims emotionally and financially ruined.
This devious and exploitative cybercrime merits a strong response to prevent the risk of, and damage resulting from, romance fraud. Consequently, many approaches have been taken to deter and disrupt the effectiveness of scammers, ranging from easily distributable awareness campaigns to bespoke victim support groups.
Such approaches demonstrate promising results in some areas; however, they are not without their limitations. Awareness campaigns can only be effective if users retain the message. Meanwhile, victim support groups can only attempt to lessen the emotional impact for victims and prevent them from being further defrauded. Existing approaches overlook a key area in the romance fraud timeline: the dating platforms themselves. Dating platforms offer an opportunity to examine interactions between scammers and potential victims, thus potentially providing interventions when scammer behaviour is identified rather than after the fact; allowing context dependent advice in this setting helps keep users one step ahead of the scammers.
This devious and exploitative cybercrime merits a strong response to prevent the risk of, and damage resulting from, romance fraud. Consequently, many approaches have been taken to deter and disrupt the effectiveness of scammers, ranging from easily distributable awareness campaigns to bespoke victim support groups.
Such approaches demonstrate promising results in some areas; however, they are not without their limitations. Awareness campaigns can only be effective if users retain the message. Meanwhile, victim support groups can only attempt to lessen the emotional impact for victims and prevent them from being further defrauded. Existing approaches overlook a key area in the romance fraud timeline: the dating platforms themselves. Dating platforms offer an opportunity to examine interactions between scammers and potential victims, thus potentially providing interventions when scammer behaviour is identified rather than after the fact; allowing context dependent advice in this setting helps keep users one step ahead of the scammers.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jul 2023 |
| Event | Third International Conference on Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security - University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Jul 2023 → 13 Jul 2023 Conference number: 3rd https://crestresearch.ac.uk/bass23/ |
Conference
| Conference | Third International Conference on Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security |
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| Abbreviated title | BASS23 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Bath |
| Period | 11/07/23 → 13/07/23 |
| Other | The conference themes are Risk Assessment and Management; Gathering Human Intelligence; and Deterrence and Disruption. Across all the themes we are interested in whether there are novel or established approaches from underrepresented but cognate fields such as, e.g., sociology, digital health, political science, design, mathematics, or linguistics that can provide new ways forward with any of these questions? |
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Keywords
- Romance fraud
- Romance scam
- Human-computer interaction
- Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity
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Love bytes: improving romance fraud prevention
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