{"id":162151,"date":"2023-04-14T06:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-review-of-existing-studies-investigating-online-romance-fraud"},"modified":"2023-04-14T06:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:23:35","slug":"a-review-of-existing-studies-investigating-online-romance-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-review-of-existing-studies-investigating-online-romance-fraud","title":{"rendered":"A review of existing studies investigating online romance fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-review-of-existing-studies-investigating-online-romance-fraud2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online romance fraud is an increasingly common phenomenon, which can affect people of all ages worldwide. This type of fraud occurs when a malicious individual or members of a criminal organization engage with users online pretending to be romantically interested in them, while trying to trick them into sending money or sharing confidential information with them.<\/p>\n<p>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/romance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">romance<\/a> scams can have a detrimental effect on a victim\u2019s life, causing them to spend all their savings, become indebted, and even be subjected to blackmail or identity theft. A team of researchers at Abertay University in the U.K. recently reviewed existing literature focusing on romance <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fraud\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fraud<\/a> and then summarized some of the most recurring findings in a paper pre-published on <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomance fraud has been growing over the last decade or so and was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic which saw a surge in cybercrime and cyberattacks,\u201d Dr. Lynsay Shepherd, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. \u201cOur paper provides a comprehensive overview of romance fraud research, which could serve as a starting point for future research in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online romance fraud is an increasingly common phenomenon, which can affect people of all ages worldwide. This type of fraud occurs when a malicious individual or members of a criminal organization engage with users online pretending to be romantically interested in them, while trying to trick them into sending money or sharing confidential information with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}