Relationship-Investment Fraud
Definition
Fraud that builds trust before inducing payments into a purported investment. Not every romance scam uses an investment pretext.
Related terms
- Account Attribution
- The process of linking a pseudonymous or anonymous online account to a real-world identity. Methods include IP log analysis, device fingerprinting, cross-platform...
- NCII
- Non-consensual intimate imagery, including relevant real or synthetic depictions. Legal definitions and remedies vary.
- Platform Policy
- A service’s rules for participation and moderation. Breaching them is not automatically a criminal offence.
- Preservation Request
- A formal letter sent to a platform asking it to freeze and retain specified account data pending formal legal process. Under 18...
- Sock Puppet
- A fictitious online identity created and controlled by an investigator to observe or interact with a target without revealing the investigation. The...