Abstract In September 2012, the Japanese celebrity and porn star Sora Aoi posted two
messages on her Sina Weibo account expressing friendship between Japanese and …

The Psychology of Fraud, Persuasion and Scam Techniques provides an in-depth
explanation of not only why we fall for scams and how fraudsters use technology and other …

As a new kind of contactless crime, the telecom and internet fraud has become a public
hazard, with criminals targeting massive numbers of innocent victims. It is a prominent …

4-1-9 is a multi-billion-dollar international email scam that is believed to have originated
from Nigeria. This study examines the framing of email communications used in this fraud …

This paper investigates the evolution of investment scam lures and scam-related keywords
in the cryptocurrency online forum Bitcointalk over a period of 12 years. Our findings show a …

Cyberbullying involves the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) to
carry out an act or a series of acts intended to harm victims emotionally [12, p. 288]. As a …

Scam baiters are individuals in online information communities specializing in identifying,
documenting and reporting actions of so-called'419 scammers'. A qualitative research …

This study focuses on advance fee fraud (AFF) scamming, a specific form of online
deception in which scammers rely on social engineering techniques to deceive individuals …

In 2018, almost half a billion dollars ($489 million) in losses from over 378,000 scam reports
was reported to the ACCC, the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) …