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There's a scam out there for everyone : an examination of the scammers' tricks employed in two types of mass-marketing frauds - work at home and romance scams
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Whitty, Monica T. (2016) There's a scam out there for everyone : an examination of the scammers' tricks employed in two types of mass-marketing frauds - work at home and romance scams. In: Untitled: invited talk, Australian Capital Territory, 15 Dec 2016 (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Mass-marketing fraud (MMFs) is a serious, complex and organised crime. The Internet has opened up the floodgates to MMF given that criminals can use it to target many more potential victims with very limited marginal effort, to trick them into making electronic and even crypto-currency transfers for mistaken charity, investment or love. In the UK in 2016 the Crime Survey of England and Wales published by the Office of National Statistics revealed for the first time that fraud is the most prevalent crime committed against people in England and Wales. In 2015 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reported that Australians lost $45 million to scams. This paper reports work from our DAPM: Detecting and Preventing MMF project: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/csc/research/dapm/ supported by an EPSRC grant in the UK (EP/N028112/1). This paper reports the findings from interviews conducted with work-at-home and romance scam victims. Comparisons are made between the anatomy of these scams, and the persuasive strategies employed by the criminals. It is argued here that ICTs (Internet Communication Technologies) play an important role in the success of these particular scams and are used to build trusting relationships to push victims into parting with their money. The findings have implications for crime-prevention as well as to provide appropriate support for these victims.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Other) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
Official Date: | 15 December 2016 | ||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | ||||
Grant number: | EP/N028112/1. | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Other | ||||
Title of Event: | Untitled: invited talk | ||||
Type of Event: | Workshop | ||||
Location of Event: | Australian Capital Territory | ||||
Date(s) of Event: | 15 Dec 2016 |
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