Understanding Craigslist Rental Scams
Understanding Craigslist Rental Scams
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了解 Craigslist 租赁诈骗
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-662-54970-4_1
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
E. Shi
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作者：
Youngsam Park;Damon McCoy;E. Shi
欺诈性地发布在线租赁列表，租赁骗局，经常被用户举报。然而，我们对租房骗局结构的了解有限。在本文中，我们对Craigslist上的在线租赁骗局进行了首次系统的实证研究。这项研究是由一套技术，使我们能够识别诈骗活动和我们的自动化系统，能够通过与骗子交谈收集额外的信息。我们的测量研究揭示了不同的诈骗活动所采用的广泛策略以及他们赖以获利的基础设施。我们发现，许多这些策略，如信用报告诈骗，在结构上不同于传统的先进的费用欺诈在以前的研究中发现。此外，我们发现Craigslist删除了我们检测到的不到一半的可疑列表。最后，我们发现，我们检测到的许多大规模活动都依赖于信用卡支付，这表明支付水平的干预可能会有效地使它们无效。
Fraudulently posted online rental listings, rental scams, have been frequently reported by users. However, our understanding of the structure of rental scams is limited. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic empirical study of online rental scams on Craigslist. This study is enabled by a suite of techniques that allowed us to identify scam campaigns and our automated system that is able to collect additional information by conversing with scammers. Our measurement study sheds new light on the broad range of strategies different scam campaigns employ and the infrastructure they depend on to profit. We find that many of these strategies, such as credit report scams, are structurally different from the traditional advanced fee fraud found in previous studies. In addition, we find that Craigslist remove less than half of the suspicious listings we detected. Finally, we find that many of the larger-scale campaigns we detected depend on credit card payments, suggesting that a payment level intervention might effectively demonetize them.