Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud
Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud
Adebayo Benedict Soares Suleman Lazarus Mark Button a Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja, Nigeriab London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UKc University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africad University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UKAdebayo Benedict Soares is a chief superintendent and senior prosecutor at Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He is a Certified Economic Crime Forensic Examiner (CECFE), Certified Cybercrime Investigator (CCCI), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He holds a Master of Science in Economic Crime and International Criminal Justice and an Executive Diploma in Anti-Corruption and Diplomacy. Mr Soares has investigated and prosecuted numerous financial crimes, such as investment fraud, money laundering, and cybercrime. He has been instrumental in significant asset recovery through civil forfeiture. His scholarly works have been featured in journals like “Criminal Justice Studies”.Suleman Lazarus holds all his university degrees from the UK, including a PhD from the University of Portsmouth. He is an Associate Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal, Digital Threats: Research and Practice. Dr Lazarus is also a Visiting Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He developed the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF), classifying cybercrimes into socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical motivational groups. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including Telematics and Informatics, Criminal Justice Studies, Journal of Criminology, Deviant Behavior, and Current Issues in Criminal Justice. His research primarily explores the intersection of cybercriminals and society across various contexts, such as Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Cambodia, and the United Kingdom.Mark Button is the Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is a leading authority on counter-fraud, online fraud, and private policing. Professor Button has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and ten books on these subjects. His extensive research portfolio includes projects for organisations such as the Home Office, National Fraud Authority, EPSRC, Sentencing Council, Midlands Fraud Forum, Crowe Clark Whitehill, and the United Nations.