Scambaiting on the Spectrum of Digilantism

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0132
Nama Orang :	Sorell, Tom






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor and Francis - Criminology and Law, 2019

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Abstrak	Digilantism is punishment through online exposure of supposed wrongdoing. Paedophile hunting is one example, and the practice is open to many of the classical objections to vigilantism. But it lies on a spectrum that contains many other kinds of digilantism. Scambaiting is among the other kinds. It consists of attracting online approaches from perpetrators of different kinds of online advance-fee fraud. Characteristically, it takes the form of protracted email exchanges between scammers and scambaiters. These exchanges are mainly down-to-earth and occasionally testy conversations about the details of fictitious money transfers or involved explanations of delays in payment. They succeed in their purpose if they waste a lot of their targets time, but they can also be pursued as a sort of comic art form. Scambaiting exchanges seem often, but not always, to be relatively harmless. They therefore help to make intelligible a region of morally permissible digilantism on the spectrum of digilantism. Not that scambaiters never go too far, but their typical weapons inflict and risk inflicting far less harm than those of other digilantes, and there are actual scambaiting norms that have been chosen because of their relative harmlessness.
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	digilantism, scambaiting, online harm, paedophile hunting, grooming, vigilantism
ISSN	0731-129X (Print) 1937-5948 (Online)
Tahun Terbit	2019
No. Induk	eja-21-0132
Entri Sumber Data	Taylor and Francis - Criminology and Law
Entri Utama Nama orang	Sorell, Tom
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 38, no. 3, p. 153-175
Barcode	eja-21-0132
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	Scambaiting on the Spectrum of Digilantism
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional