Online gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry that entertains a large, global population. One unfortunate phenomenon, however, poisons the competition and spoils the fun: cheating. The costs of cheating span from industry-supported expenditures to detect and limit it, to victims’ monetary losses due to cyber crime. This paper studies cheaters in the Steam Community, an online social network ...

The videogame industry is a growing business in the world, with an annual growth rate that exceeded 16.7% for the period 2005 through 2008. Moreover, revenues from online games will account for more than 38% of total video game software revenues by 2013. Due to this, online games are vulnerable to illicit player activity that results in cheating. Cheating in online games could damage the reputa...

A secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic protocol by means of which a dealer shares a secret among a set of participants in such a way that it can be subsequently reconstructed by certain qualiied subsets. The setting we consider is the following: in a rst phase, the dealer gives in a secure way a piece of information, called a share, to each participant. Then, participants belonging to a qua...

The prevalence and surge in academic cheating indicate that students are finding innovative techniques to cheat during examinations. This problem has left invigilators stakeholders wondering how manage exams. With a qualitative approach, this study sought explore the used by Data were gathered from of Kwame Nkrumah University Science Technology. findings revealed sitting arrangements, use body ...

Abstract In this note, we provide direct evidence of cheating in online assessments political knowledge. We combine survey responses with web tracking data a German and US panel to assess whether people turn external sources for answers. observe item-level prevalence rates that range from 0 12 percent depending on question type difficulty, find 23 respondents engage at least once across waves. ...

Our recent research revealed two predictors of multiple-choice exam cheating: subclinical psychopathy and poor verbal ability. However, the extent to which individual difference variables predict plagiarism on term papers remains untested. Such research is now possible using the widely used plagiarism detector called Turn-It-In. We collected such objective measures of both plagiarism and multip...

Purpose The researchers aim to investigate how students can be deterred from cheating, whether legal or ethical policies and procedures are effective there gender differences. Design/methodology/approach Using data on undertaking midterm final e-examinations, as well a control group of who were caught cheating in an online mid-semester examination, the authors attempt answer research questions....

In this study, participants (n = 196) read a vignette about an imaginary romantic partner cheating on them by having sex with another person and responded to a series of questions assessing variables associated with forgiveness. Method of discovering how the infidelity occurred and the frequency of cheating occurrence were manipulated between participants, while the presence or absence of an ap...