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- research-articleJanuary 2020
Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud
- Guillermo Suarez-Tangil,
- Matthew Edwards,
- Claudia Peersman,
- Gianluca Stringhini,
- Awais Rashid,
- Monica Whitty
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Volume 15Pages 1128–1137https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2019.2930479Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the West, and yet few studies have presented data-driven responses to this problem. In this type of scam, fraudsters craft fake profiles and manually interact with their victims. Because ...
- research-articleMay 2018
Towards forensic-ready software systems
ICSE-NIER '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging ResultsPages 9–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3183399.3183426As software becomes more ubiquitous, and the risk of cyber-crimes increases, ensuring that software systems are forensic-ready (i.e., capable of supporting potential digital investigations) is critical. However, little or no attention has been given to ...
- research-articleApril 2017
Ethical and Social Challenges with developing Automated Methods to Detect and Warn potential victims of Mass-marketing Fraud (MMF)
- Monica Whitty,
- Matthew Edwards,
- Michael Levi,
- Claudia Peersman,
- Awais Rashid,
- Angela Sasse,
- Tom Sorell,
- Gianluca Stringhini
WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web CompanionPages 1311–1314https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3053891Mass-marketing frauds (MMFs) are on the increase. Given the amount of monies lost and the psychological impact of MMFs there is an urgent need to develop new and effective methods to prevent more of these crimes. This paper reports the early planning of ...
- research-articleApril 2017
Scamming the Scammers: Towards Automatic Detection of Persuasion in Advance Fee Frauds
WWW '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web CompanionPages 1291–1299https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3053889Advance fee fraud is a significant component of online criminal activity. Fraudsters can often make off with significant sums, and victims will usually find themselves plagued by follow-up scams. Previous studies of how fraudsters persuade their victims ...
- research-articleSeptember 2016
iCOP
Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DIGITI), Volume 18, Issue CPages 50–64https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2016.07.002The increasing levels of criminal media being shared in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks pose a significant challenge to law enforcement agencies. One of the main priorities for P2P investigators is to identify cases where a user is actively engaged in the ...
- ArticleMay 2014
iCOP: Automatically Identifying New Child Abuse Media in P2P Networks
SPW '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Security and Privacy WorkshopsPages 124–131https://doi.org/10.1109/SPW.2014.27The increasing levels of child sex abuse (CSA) media being shared in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks pose a significant challenge for law enforcement agencies. Although a number of P2P monitoring tools to detect offender activity in such networks exist, ...
- research-articleOctober 2011
Predicting age and gender in online social networks
SMUC '11: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Search and mining user-generated contentsPages 37–44https://doi.org/10.1145/2065023.2065035A common characteristic of communication on online social networks is that it happens via short messages, often using non-standard language variations. These characteristics make this type of text a challenging text genre for natural language ...
