current research is strongly motivated by the need to translate research on romance fraud victimology into practical and …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 …

financial fraud detection and prevention. …

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 …

We aimed to identify the critical insights from empirical peer-reviewed studies on online romance fraud published … state of empirical knowledge on romance fraud and identifies certain gaps and biases in the literature. We argue there is a … need for further research into online romance fraud to enhance our understanding of it both from the perspective of the …

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 …