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Romance baiting, cryptorom and ‘pig butchering’: an evolutionary step in romance fraud
Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2023 Romance fraud uses the guise of a genuine relationship to deceive a victim into transferring often large amounts of money to an offender/s. Romance fraud has been in the top three categories of financial loss for Australian victims over the past decade ...
Cassandra Cross
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Teaching Note: Reading the Romance; Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Radical Teacher, 2022 The phenomenal success of romances has naturally stirred the contempt of high culture critics, and more recently the concern of feminists, who have generally understood these narratives as promoting a kind of false consciousness, coating patriarchal ...
Richard Ohmann
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To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud
Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2023 Romance fraud, where an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship for monetary gain, affects millions globally. Further to financial losses, evidence suggests victims may also be targeted for sextortion, where the offender either has images or ...
Cassandra Cross, Karen M. Holt, T. Holt
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French as a Heritage Language in Germany
Languages, 2021 Research on child heritage speakers (HSs) has shown successful language acquisition, comparable to monolinguals, whereas research on adult HSs often claims incomplete acquisition. This seems to be an evident contradiction in the current state of research,
Johanna Stahnke +2 more
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More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime
Global crime, 2023 Romance fraud occurs when an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship to defraud an individual for financial gain. Known statistics indicate that millions are lost each year to this form of fraud. However, the potential for romance fraud victims
Cassandra Cross, T. Holt
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Languages, 2022 The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico).
Patrick Auhagen, Melanie Uth
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Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud
Victims & Offenders, 2022 This article assesses 3,259 romance fraud reports made by individuals to Scamwatch (Australian online reporting portal for fraud), between July 2018 – July 2019 (inclusive).
Cassandra Cross, Murray Lee
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Languages, 2021 Adult L2 acquisition has often been framed within research on the Critical Period Hypothesis, and the age factor is one of the most researched topics of SLA. However, several researchers suggest that while age is the most important factor for differences
Fanny Forsberg Lundell, Klara Arvidsson
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Social science computer review, 2021 Romance fraud impacts the lives of thousands of people globally. Financial losses exceed millions of dollars each year and are steadily increasing annually.
Cassandra Cross, Rebecca Layt
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La motivación de los alumnos polacos para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016 Over the past several years the number of students learning Spanish as a foreign language has doubled in Poland. The present article is an attempt at answering the following questions: Why is Spanish so popular in Polish schools and what are the reasons ...
Małgorzata Spychała-Wawrzyniak +1 more
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