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Everything about Email fraud
Deception through email, made for personal gain or to damage another individual
Email fraud is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to defraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Email fraudA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Business Email Compromise (BEC) Fraud and How to Prevent itInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Phishing ExposedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Email fraud: The search for psychological predictors of susceptibilityCited 75 times
- Go sideways: Voice phishingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Lottery scamA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Email fraud: The search for psychological predictors of susceptibility
Exploiting trust for financial gain: an overview of business email compromise (BEC) fraud
Email Fraud: Language, Technology, and the Indexicals of Globalisation
Towards a thematic dimensional framework of online fraud: An exploration of fraudulent email attack tactics and intentions
Susceptibility to Email Fraud
The role of financial literacy in consumer financial fraud exposure (via email) and victimisation: evidence from Spain
Text, lies and electronic bait: An analysis of email fraud and the decisions of the unsuspecting
Hybrid Naïve Bayes Models for Scam Detection: Comparative Insights From Email and Financial Fraud
🆕 Influential since 2022
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Fraud and How to Prevent it
Email Analysis in Fraud Investigation: Digital Forensic and Network Analysis Approach
Fraud Email Analysis and Risk Scoring for Anomaly-Based Fraud Detection
Online Trade Fraud: Focuse on Email Hacking
Enhancing Spam Filtering: A Machine Learning Approach to SMS and Email Fraud Classification
📚 Books worth reading
Phishing ExposedLance James · 2005
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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