Online Deception and Situations Conducive to the Progression of Non-payment Fraud
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
Online fraud, deception
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2019.1691857
Abstract
Adopting the criminal event perspective, we explore how online fraudsters make use of urgency cues in their interactions with potential victims throughout the progression of an online nonpayment fraud attempt. Integrating claims from the ‘Interpersonal-Deception Theory’ with situational explanations of crime, we investigate whether fraudsters’ presentations of verbal cues of urgency during the early stages of a criminal event are followed by a consistent presentation of verbal and non-verbal urgency cues. To answer this question, we posted a large number of ‘for-sale’ advertisements over a classified-ad website and interacted with online fraudsters and legitimate users who responded to our ads over email. Our findings highlight the relevance of the criminal event perspective in guiding research on targets and offenders in cyberspace.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Crime and Justice, v. 42, issue 5, p. 516-535
Scholar Commons Citation
Maimon, David; Santos, Mateus; and Park, Youngsam, "Online Deception and Situations Conducive to the Progression of Non-payment Fraud" (2019). Criminology Faculty Publications. 38.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cjp_facpub/38
