RT Book
T1 Rationalizing Online Romance Fraud: In the Eyes of the Offender
A1 Afful-Dadzie, Anthony
A2 Kolog, Emmanuel Awuni
A2 Boateng, Richard
A2 Barnor, Jonathan Nii Barnor
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866606778
AB This study seeks to understand romance scam from the offenders' perspective and how they rationalize their motivations, opportunities and abilities towards the commission of the crime. To this end, we adopt the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability framework and the Rationalization dimension of the Fraud Triangle Theory. The study employed a qualitative methodological approach to analyze the opportunities presented by emerging technologies to cyber fraudsters amid socio-economic drivers. One is the interplay of various socio-economic factors being a major driving force behind the commission of cybercrime. These include peer recruitment and training, poverty, unemployment, low level of education and low income. The uniqueness of this study stems from the fact that it deviates from previous studies to investigate cybercrime from the perspective of the perpetrators. Again, this study is arguably one of the first to put all three dimensions of the MOA framework and the rationalization dimension of the Fraud Triangle to study romance scammers' behaviors