The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime
The Online Romance Scam: A Serious Cybercrime
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DOI：
10.1089/cyber.2011.0352
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发表时间：
2012-03-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Buchanan, Tom
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作者：
Whitty, Monica T.;Buchanan, Tom
网上浪漫骗局是一种相对较新的欺诈形式，在2008年左右变得明显。在这种犯罪中，犯罪分子假装通过在线约会网站建立关系，然后骗取受害者大量金钱。本文介绍了一些描述性统计知识和受害的网上约会浪漫骗局在英国。我们的研究发现，尽管它是新的，估计有23万英国公民可能成为这种犯罪的受害者。我们的结论是，需要重新考虑为受害者提供举报犯罪的途径，或至少让他们在举报时更自在。
The Online Romance Scam is a relatively new form of fraud that became apparent in about 2008. In this crime, criminals pretend to initiate a relationship through online dating sites then defraud their victims of large sums of money. This paper presents some descriptive statistics about knowledge and victimization of the online dating romance scam in Great Britain. Our study found that despite its newness, an estimated 230,000 British citizens may have fallen victim to this crime. We conclude that there needs to be some rethinking about providing avenues for victims to report the crime or at least making them more comfortable when doing so.