Be a Curious Romantic: Understanding how Romance Fraud Works with Linguistic Analysis

About Our Guest:

Dr Elisabeth Carter

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-carter-8b372444

Papers mentioned in this Episode:

Carter, E. (2021). Distort, extort, deceive and exploit: Exploring the inner workings of a romance fraud. The British Journal of Criminology, 61(2), 283-302.

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa072

 

Carter, E. (2015). Laughing matters: A conversation analytic account the use of laughter by suspects and officers in the police interview. Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology, 7(1), 99-113.

https://bucks.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/9401/1/Carter,%20Elisabeth%20Laughing%20matters.pdf

 

Carter, E. (2015). The anatomy of written scam communications: An empirical analysis. Crime, Media, Culture, 11(2), 89-103.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1741659015572310

 

A Guide to Spotting Romance Fraudsters

https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/police-forces/thames-valley-police/areas/c/2020/a-guide-to-spotting-romance-fraudsters

TinEye is a reverse image search tool.  You can search with an image for other similar images. 

https://tineye.com/

If you can't access that then, you can also reverse image search on google. 

https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

About our Expert Guest:

Dr. Joshua James

https://dfir.science/

https://www.youtube.com/DFIRScience

 

What we learned:

What happens where there is a difference in analysis between digital forensics investigators ?

Like physical evidence there is little room for differences regarding the facts of a case.  There might be a different in explanation of the meaning of a piece of evidence depending on the story they are presenting. The tools are an instrument of interpreting the meaning of information on a device and tools can make mistakes.  Using multiple tools that extract and analyze data from devices reduces the chance of this happening.  

Other:

Thanks very much to my neighbours for assisting with the voice over for this episode. I do hope the human/furniture couples ballroom dancing and hollering team goes well in whichever competition you are preparing for.   Also thanks to my audio editing software for deciding to have a meltdown and give me the opportunity to do the final mastering twice.  

This episode's track is called 'curious diamonds'. Not all of the songs for podcast episodes get a name, but it did this time.