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cs.CR2025
Victim as a Service: Designing a System for Engaging with Interactive Scammers
Daniel Spokoyny, Nikolai Vogler, Xin Gao +7
Pig butchering, and similar interactive online scams, lower their victims' defenses by building trust over extended periods of conversation - sometimes weeks or months. They have b…
cs.CR2024★ 1 cited
Count of Monte Crypto: Accounting-based Defenses for Cross-Chain Bridges
Enze Liu, Elisa Luo, Jian Chen Yan +5
Between 2021 and 2023, crypto assets valued at over $US2.6 billion were stolen via attacks on "bridges" -- decentralized services designed to allow inter-blockchain exchange. Whil…
cs.CR2024★ 6 cited
Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates
Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier +6
Scams -- fraudulent schemes designed to swindle money from victims -- have existed for as long as recorded history. However, the Internet's combination of low communication cost, g…