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Scambaiting on the spectrum of digilantism
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Sorell, Tom (2019) Scambaiting on the spectrum of digilantism. Criminal Justice Ethics, 38 (3). 153-175 . doi:10.1080/0731129X.2019.1681132 ISSN 0731-129X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2019.1681132
Abstract
Digilantism is punishment through online exposure of supposed wrongdoing. Paedophile hunting is one example, and the practice is open to many of the classical objections to vigilantism. But it lies on a spectrum that contains many other kinds of digilantism. Scambaiting is among the other kinds. It consists of attracting online approaches from perpetrators of different kinds of online advance-fee fraud. Characteristically, it takes the form of protracted email exchanges between scammers and scambaiters. These exchanges are mainly down-to-earth and occasionally testy conversations about the details of fictitious money transfers or involved explanations of delays in payment. They succeed in their purpose if they waste a lot of their targets’ time, but they can also be pursued as a sort of comic art form. Scambaiting exchanges seem often, but not always, to be relatively harmless. They therefore help to make intelligible a region of morally permissible digilantism on the spectrum of digilantism. Not that scambaiters never go too far, but their typical weapons inflict and risk inflicting far less harm than those of other digilantes, and there are actual scambaiting norms that have been chosen because of their relative harmlessness.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Criminology, Social justice, Internet -- Social aspects, Computer crimes -- Prevention | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Criminal Justice Ethics | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 0731-129X | ||||||
Official Date: | 30 October 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | 153-175 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0731129X.2019.1681132 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Criminal Justice Ethics on 30/10/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0731129X.2019.1681132 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 August 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 April 2021 | ||||||
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