This study explores the persuasive strategies employed by scammers in cryptocurrency scams in Malaysia through the analysis of three scam articles. By applying Aristotle's persuasive modes (ethos, pathos, and logos), the research aims to uncover the linguistic manipulations used to deceive individuals into investing in fraudulent schemes. The findings highlight that scammers utilize ethos to establish credibility by associating their scams with renowned figures, while pathos appeals to emotions such as hope, excitement, and fear of missing out through personal success stories and emotional language. Logos is employed to present logical reasoning by emphasizing the safety, profitability, and advantages of the cryptocurrency platforms. These insights underscore the need for increased awareness and critical evaluation of cryptocurrency investments, as well as the development of countermeasures to protect individuals from scams. Future research directions may involve assessing the effectiveness of countermeasures and investigating evolving language techniques employed by scammers. By shedding light on persuasive strategies, this study aims to contribute to the prevention and detection of cryptocurrency scams, safeguarding potential victims from financial harm.
Learning a language has never been an easy task for most learners and students performance greater differ in a single classroom despite being taught by the same teacher and expose to the same materials. Therefore, the main issue for this could possibly be due to the students' own learning strategies that is causing them to excel or underperform in language learning. In the context of a Malaysian classroom, this needs to be understood as academicians are dealing with a multi-cultural group of students from various economical background that would definitely have an impact on how the learn a language. Therefore, this study aims to learn and answer the general question of how students' learning strategies affect the process of how they learn languages. More specifically, this quantitative study is done to explore motivation factors for learning among undergraduates students from Universities in Malaysia. A purposive sample of 129 participants responded to the survey which was distributed via Google form. The results indicate that metacognitive self-regulation can positively impact learning by helping individuals monitor and adjust their learning strategies, identify areas where they need to improve their understanding, and set goals to guide their study activities. This finding is important as it can assist academicians to understand why some students are not performing in language learning and design a more systematic checklist for the students to monitor their own learning process.
Over the last few years, there are growing concerns over the astronomical increase of reported cases of illegal internet investment schemes in Malaysia. Although the Central Bank of Malaysia (CBM) regulates and supervises financial institutions in order to combat illegal investment scheme through Financial Services Act 2013 (FSA 2013) and Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (IFSA 2013), they do not protect the consumers should they choose to deal with the illegal financial service providers. The large financial losses have a negative impact fiscally on investors' socioeconomic. Hence, this study is proposed to analyse Malaysian illegal internet investment scammers' language properties to provide cyber defense for the public. Using Zhang and Wildermuth's (2009) content analysis process, this study intends to examine the linguistic strategies used by scammers in their websites to deceive their targets. This study will focus on several websites identified by CBM as the primary data source. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with personnel from relevant government agencies. For triangulation purposes, individuals who have experienced investing and willing to share their experiences and data will be interviewed. All data will be coded and categorised, and emergent themes will be presented to answer research questions. With great hope, this study's results will help provide comprehensive public education about these scams' linguistics strategies as a strong defense against them. The results may also help the authorities develop better crime prevention methods and contribute to the criminal justice system in presenting more significant linguistic evidence in the court of law.
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