QUT Centre for Justice hosted a successful event as part of Scams Awareness Week 2024 titled, “Stop a Scam, Share a Story”. As we wrap up Scams Awareness Week we would like to thank those who contributed to this conversation.
Chaired by Professor Cassandra Cross from the Centre for Justice (C4J), alongside fellow researchers, Associate Professor Phoebe Hart and Dr Laura Vitis and storytellers, Stephanie Wood and Tracy Hall, the panel provided a brutal insight into the world of deception which characterises romance fraud and how it is depicted in the media and on screen.
The experiences of Stephanie, the author of Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies which was adapted as a TV series on Paramount Prime, starring Asher Keddie and David Wenham, and Tracy who featured in the podcast, Who the Hell is Hamish and also authored the book The Last Victim about her experience highlight the sheer depth of elaborate deception that can be perpetrated in an intimate relationship. Critically, it highlights romance fraud isn’t relegated to an online environment.
Resources from the event include links to the researcher profiles of Cass, Phoebe Hart and Laura Vitis and Cassandra’s Romance Fraud Showcase page. It includes links to QUT Centre for Justice Briefing Papers on the subjects of fraud and romance fraud and a recent article 
written for The Conversation titled, Romance fraud doesn’t only happen online – it can turn into real-world deception (theconversation.com)
All of these resources can be found here.
A video from the panel discussion will be available shortly.
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