More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime

IF 1.4 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Global Crime Pub Date : 2023-03-05 DOI:10.1080/17440572.2023.2185607

Cassandra Cross, T. Holt

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Romance fraud occurs when an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship to defraud an individual for financial gain. Known statistics indicate that millions are lost each year to this form of fraud. However, the potential for romance fraud victims to also experience identity crime as a consequence of their interactions and communications with an offender has yet to be explored. This article begins to address this gap by examining the potential exposure for identity crime in the context of romance fraud using reports lodged with Scamwatch, an Australian online fraud reporting portal. The findings demonstrate few behavioural and demographic characteristics associated with the potential exposure of those targeted by romance fraud to identity crime. However, the article provides insights into how this analysis should inform prevention messaging and victim support services for those targeted by romance fraud.

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不仅仅是金钱:考察恋爱诈骗受害者的潜在暴露身份犯罪

摘要:爱情诈骗是指犯罪分子以真实的关系为幌子欺骗个人以获取经济利益。已知的统计数据表明，每年有数百万人因这种形式的欺诈而损失。然而，由于与罪犯的互动和交流，爱情欺诈受害者也可能经历身份犯罪，这一可能性还有待研究。本文通过向澳大利亚在线欺诈报告门户网站Scamwatch提交报告，研究在浪漫欺诈背景下身份犯罪的潜在暴露，从而开始解决这一差距。研究结果表明，很少有行为和人口统计学特征与恋爱欺诈的目标对象暴露于身份犯罪的潜在风险有关。然而，这篇文章提供了一些见解，说明这种分析应该如何为浪漫欺诈的目标提供预防信息和受害者支持服务。

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Global Crime CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

4.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Global Crime is a social science journal devoted to the study of crime broadly conceived. Its focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary and its first aim is to make the best scholarship on crime available to specialists and non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on authors from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, criminology, economics, political science, anthropology and area studies. The editors welcome contributions on any topic relating to crime, including organized criminality, its history, activities, relations with the state, its penetration of the economy and its perception in popular culture.