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- research-articleNovember 2017
Getting phished on social media
Decision Support Systems (DSSY), Volume 103, Issue CPages 70–81https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2017.09.004The study experimentally simulated a level-1 social networking-based phishing (SNP) attack, where a phisher using a phony profile attempts to friend an individual on Facebook, and a level-2 SNP attack, where a phisher attempts to extract information ...
- research-articleNovember 2016
Why do people lie online? Because everyone lies on the internet
Computers in Human Behavior (COHB), Volume 64, Issue CPages 134–142https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.06.052In this study, we examined online deception across four different online venues (i.e., social media, online dating, anonymous chat rooms, and sexual websites) in a sample of 272 U.S. adults (average age=32.22 years) recruited through Amazons MTurk. Few ...
- articleDecember 2015
Diffusion of deception in social media: Social contagion effects and its antecedents
Information Systems Frontiers (KLU-ISFI), Volume 17, Issue 6Pages 1353–1367https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9509-2What makes deceptive attacks on social media particularly virulent is the likelihood of a contagion effect, where a perpetrator takes advantage of the connections among people to deceive them. To examine this, the current study experimentally stimulates ...