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Question for the fediverse hivemind: has anyone seen any research on the tendency to underreport scams and how that varies across age, gender, race, etc?

I can't believe this research doesn't exist, and you -- the beautiful people of the fediverse -- are the ones most likely to know about it!

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Adam Shostack
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The uk’s national security centre did some work on victimization rates and may have touched on reporting issues
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funnymonkey
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@adamshostack
Thank you! I'll dig in there!

If there are any pointers you have, that'd be awesome!

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
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@adamshostack ok, here's a dump from an internal research paper in progress (there are no hallucinations, but we may not know about other work!): docs.google.com/document/d/1Jw…

Scam Reporting by Demographics

Scam Reporting Tendencies Across Demographics By Gender Scams are chronically underreported across the board, but this is particularly true for men (DeLiema and Witt, 2024).
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
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@adamshostack There is some field research, not published, on cultural differences. Been trying to track that down. E.g., arab communities are especially affected by non-reporting, but I can't seem to find that in peer-reviewed research or government publications.
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funnymonkey
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@joebeone

Yeah - all of this is evolving significantly faster than the pace of research, and the fragmentation caused by current politics really doesn't help.

It's really a messy, tragic space on so many levels.

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