The Language of Romance Crimes Interactions of Love, Money, and Threat Carter

The Language of Romance Crimes\n\nInteractions of Love, Money, and Threat\n\nUncovering the criminal world of romance fraudsters through their devastating interplay of love, money, sextortion and threat.\n\nElisabeth Carter (Author)\n\n9781009272995, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 11 April 2024\n\n80 pages\n23 x 15 x 0.5 cm, 0.15 kg\n\nExploring the interplay of love, money and threat in romance fraud, this Element reveals how language is used to persuade, manipulate, and threaten without causing alarm. It provides the first empirical examination of criminal interactions-in-action that exposes and tracks the grooming process and manipulation techniques from first contact with the fraudster, to the transition between romance and finance, and requests for money and intimate images, before morphing into explicit threats and acts of sextortion. Through the use of a range of interactional methodologies and real romance fraud messages, a new type of criminali]