Across the world each year millions of people are victimised by online crime, many of whom fall victim to online fraud …. One of the most enduring and prolific types of online fraud is romance fraud. Romance fraud often leads to financial and … psychological devastation of those who are victimised. The study explores the experiences of 13 romance fraud victims through their …

Fraud uses deception to obtain a financial reward from its victim. There are strong negative stereotypes and victim … blaming discourses towards fraud victims, with research indicating that fraud victims are unlikely to report incidents for … many reasons, including a high degree of shame and stigmatisation. In this way, it can be assumed that fraud victims are …

There is a debate at the highest levels of government and civil society over whether the rise in fraud is a blip … debate by exploring the social factors influencing the level of fraud. It does so by conceptualising these factors as a fraud … 'safeguards' which influence levels of fraud. In doing so it offers the first attempt to map the wide range of 'forces' that …

crimes like fraud and intellectual property violations, interpersonal crimes such as harassing pursuit and criminal threats …

. Discussing these findings within the wider framework of fraud and white-collar crime, this paper proposes that the substandard …

this article is important as it illustrates dilemmas that governments need to address when reviewing their national fraud …

implications for the dehumanisation of victims of online fraud across various discourses. The study provides background information … about this type of fraud before investigating its theoretical foundations and linking its emergence to the dehumanisation of … fraud victims. The analysis highlights the disparity between academic literature, subjected to rigorous peer …