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SCAM (1992)
No full textSCAM was a student-produced newspaper. It was an avenue for Swinburne students to have their work published in print. Content included articles, graphics or reviews
SCAM (1991 June)
No full textSCAM was a student-produced newspaper. It was an avenue for Swinburne students to have their work published in print. Content included articles, graphics or reviews
7e Baromètre des relations auteurs/éditeurs - Un monde perfectible
Get PDFLa Scam, avec le concours de la SGDL, publie son nouveau baromètre des relations auteurs/éditeurs à l’occasion de Livre Paris 2018. La précédente édition datait de 2015. Cette année, 1 200 auteurs, dont les auteurs jeunesse, ont répondu à ce sondage via un questionnaire en ligne
Biennial SCAM #2
No full textGarneau contributes an essay to this catalogue for the second SCAM biennial, a touring exhibition organized by the Small City Art Museums curatorial collective. His essay describes the work of the ten Prairie artists in the exhibition, underscoring the interconnecting themes, such as the body, memory, environmentalism, and above all, repetition. List of works. Biographical notes
Romance Scam: Phänomenologie und strafrechtliche Aspekte
Get PDFIn den Medien finden sich regelmässig Berichte über Fälle sowie insb. über Opfer von Romance Scam bzw. von Liebesbetrug im Internet. Da dieses Phänomen aus strafrechtlicher Sicht interessante Aspekte aufweist und bis dato im Schrifttum kaum Beachtung gefunden hat, setzt sich dieser Beitrag mit der Phänomenologie sowie ausgewählten strafrechtlich relevanten Aspekten von Romance Scam auseinander
Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce: results of the 2012 online consumer fraud survey
Get PDFThe Australasian Consumer Fraud Task Force has conducted a range of fraud prevention and awareness raising activities since 2006. This report presents the results of the 2012 online consumer fraud survey.
Foreword
Each year, since 2007, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has collected information on consumer scams by conducting an online survey of Australians who have received scam invitations during the preceding 12 months. The research is conducted on behalf of the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce (ACFT), which is comprised of 22 government regulatory agencies and departments in Australia and New Zealand who work alongside private sector, community and non-government partners to prevent fraud of this nature. In order to understand the dynamics of consumer fraud victimisation, the ACFT has conducted a range of fraud prevention and awareness-raising activities over the last eight years. The annual survey seeks to obtain a snapshot of the public’s exposure to consumer scams, to assess the range of ways in which scams can affect victims and their families, to determine how victims respond and to identify emerging typologies and issues that could be used to inform fraud prevention initiatives. Survey respondents are not representative of the whole Australian population, as the sample is made up of those individuals who choose to participate, although in 2012, over 1,500 people completed the survey with good levels of representation from all states and territories, and other demographic categories.
This report presents the results of the survey conducted in conjunction with the 2012 campaign, Slam scams! Press ‘delete’, throw it out, shut the door or just hang up. The campaign theme was concerned with scam delivery methods that focused on raising awareness about the many ways in which scammers try to deliver scam invitations. A phone call, SMS, mobile application, house visit, letter, email, fax, blog, online chat or dating service—scammers will use any of these means to target victims. The primary message was simple—stop the contact at the point of delivery; if you don’t engage with a scammer in the first place, you can avoid being scammed.
As in previous years, a high proportion of respondents had received a scam invitation (95%), with almost a quarter responding to the scam in some way. Unfortunately, eight percent reported having lost money—approximately 850,000 in total. The most prevalent scam type involved fraudulent lotteries, while this year, the second-most prevalent scam concerned computer support scams, which are sometimes a means of extracting payments for non-existent services from victims or, on other occasions, a means of installing malicious software that can be used to extract personal information at a later time. In terms of delivery methods, although email continued to be the most common method by which scams were delivered, the use of landline and mobile telephones (including SMS) to target potential scam victims increased.
This report also includes some additional information on online shopping scams—the subject of the consumer fraud awareness week in June 2013. The prevalence of scams targeting those who sell or buy high-value items online, such as motor vehicles, was high in 2012, indicating a need for enhanced awareness of the risks involved in this form of consumer activity
The online romance scam : a serious cybercrime
Get PDFThe Online Romance Scam is a relatively new form of fraud that became apparent in about 2008. In this crime, criminals pretend to initiate a relationship through online dating sites then defraud their victims of large sums of money. This paper presents some descriptive statistics about knowledge and victimization of the online dating romance scam in Great Britain. Our study found that despite its newness, an estimated 230,000 British citizens may have fallen victim to this crime. We conclude that there needs to be some rethinking about providing avenues for victims to report the crime or at least making them more comfortable when doing so
The scam filter that fights back
No full textFiltering out scam mails and deleting them does not hurt a scammer in any way, but wasting their time by sending fake replies does. As the amount of replies grows, the amount of time a scammer has to spend responding to e-mails increases. This bachelor project has created a revolutionary system that recommends replies that can be sent to answer a scam mail. This makes it very easy for users to waste a scammer's time and destroy their business model. The project has a unique adaptation of the Elo rating system, which is a very popular algorithm used by systems ranging from chess to League of Legends. A Google Chrome plugin was developed with user friendliness in mind, to let people reply to scam mails quickly. To gather replies, a crowdsourcing website, which also trains the Elo system, was set up. Finally, a Python server connects all the parts, allowing for cross platform communication.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceSoftware TechnologyWeb Information SystemsTI380
The online dating romance scam : causes and consequences of victimhood
Get PDFThe online dating romance scam is a relatively new and under-reported international crime targeting users of online dating sites. It has serious financial and emotional consequences, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. However, little if anything is known about psychological characteristics that may put people at risk of romance scam victimization, or influence how they react to it. Online daters (N=853) and participants recruited from a victim support site (N=397) completed a battery of online questionnaires. High scores on the romantic belief of Idealization were associated with likelihood of being a romance scam victim. Victims experienced significant emotional distress as well as financial losses. Even respondents who reported being fooled by scammers, but who had not lost any money, reported significant distress. Level of emotional distress was associated with high Neuroticism, and also with high Loneliness and low Openness to Experience among victims not losing money. The findings have implications for the feasibility of crime-prevention measures based on victim characteristics, and for treatment of victims by law enforcement and other stakeholders
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