Awareness of online romance scam among the Facebook users / Siti Zulaiha Ramli & Zaitun Sudin

This research study analyzes the awareness of online romance scam among the Facebook users. According to Mercer (2008), Economically Motivated Cyber Crimes is the case with many crimes committed outside the Internet, money is a major motivator for many cyber criminals. By getting the knowledge about this cyber fraud, it can help the public to increase their awareness about the cyber crimes which is related to their safety and financial. By focused on the improvement of awareness of public on the online romance scam, the information are collected and gathered for analyzing. Five factors affected to online romance scam among the Facebook users are knowledge responses, common occurrences, motivation of scammer, protection on face book users, and impact of online scams. Questionnaires were used and the sample was drawn down. The questionnaires was structured in two main sections namely; Demographic and awareness of online romance scam. A survey research design was utilized for the purpose of this study in order to assess the validity and reliability of the data. A quantitative research design was used for the purpose of this study, in a way to acquire the desired outcomes of the
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