Digital arrest in the cyber age: a psychological perspective on fear, authority, and consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyDigital arrest is an emerging form of cyber deception wherein cybercriminals impersonate law enforcement or other authorities to falsely claim legal authority to arrest individuals through digital means, often via phone calls or online communication ...
S. James Robert +3 more
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Profile of soluble cell adhesion molecules as potential biomarkers in the cardiac stages of chronic Chagas disease [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyChagas cardiomyopathy is the most severe chronic manifestation and leading cause of mortality in the disease. Chronic inflammation, resulting from persistent infection by T.
Victor Vaitkevicius-Antão +11 more
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Scams and Solutions in Cryptocurrencies—A Survey Analyzing Existing Machine Learning Models
Information, 2023 With the emergence of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology, the financial sector is turning its gaze toward this latest wave. The use of cryptocurrencies is becoming very common for multiple services.
Lakshmi Priya Krishnan +3 more
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The Digital Divide and Futurist Imaginings of Zelle‐ous Resistors
Social Inclusion, 2023 The “digital divide” is widely acknowledged as exacerbating inequality by leaving some people on one side or the other of a knowledge divide without access to appropriate tools for the future and all the opportunities that digital technology promises ...
Daniela Peluso
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Fake COVID-19 vaccines: scams hampering the vaccination drive in India and possibly other countries
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 India is executing a mass vaccination program to restrict the predicted third wave of COVID-19. However, fake COVID-19 vaccines have emerged as a major challenge amid the vaccination drive in India.
Om Prakash Choudhary +4 more
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Cryptocurrency Scams: Analysis and Perspectives
IEEE Access, 2021 Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, the market of cryptocurrencies has grown beyond the initial expectations, as witnessed by the thousands of tokenised assets available on the market, whose daily trades exceed dozens of USD billions.
Massimo Bartoletti +4 more
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Do Not Rug on Me: Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Automated Scam Detection
Mathematics, 2022 Uniswap, as with other DEXs, has gained much attention this year because it is a non-custodial and publicly verifiable exchange that allows users to trade digital assets without trusted third parties.
Bruno Mazorra, Victor Adan, Vanesa Daza
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The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Commission of White-Collar Crimes by Ordinary Citizens [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2022 The white-collar frauds have seen an increase in recent years, while the emerging of new digital technologies contributed to an increase of the financial frauds, especially during the global financial crisis of 2008 and in time of coronavirus (Covid-19 ...
Eldad Bar Lev, Liviu-George Maha
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Biomarker Insights, 2008 The objective was primarily to describe short term intra-individual variation in serum levels of soluble adhesion molecules (sCAMs: E-selectin, P-selectin, intercellular adhesion molecule-1(sICAM-1) and vascular cellular adhesion molecule-1(sVCAM-1)) in ...
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Compliance with mass marketing solicitation: The role of verbatim and gist processing
Brain and Behavior, 2021 Introduction Mass marketing scams threaten financial and personal well‐being. Grounded in fuzzy‐trace theory, we examined whether verbatim and gist‐based risk processing predicts susceptibility to scams and whether such processing can be altered. Methods
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