Ja’Qwah Lewis
Dr. Leigh Armistead
CYSE 201s
11 February 2023
Understanding of How Fraud Works
When understanding how fraud works it can be quite difficult. The reason for that is many aspects control fraud. For example, who is more likely to follow the scam? When you break fraud down, you have to break it even more down into many more pieces when understanding how the research was done. In this review, I use an article by the International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime and broke it down into how it relates to social science, how the data was collected and analyzed, how it relates to how the topic relates to the challenges, concerns, and contributions of marginalized groups and how it was related to my CYSE 201s class.
So when breaking down how this article is related to social science there are a few ways it could be. Firstly I would say this article is related to social science under the reasoning of sociology. Sociology is the study of human behavior, social life, and social change (Case Western Reserve University). This article relates to sociology because it studies which group of people has low self-control on control variables of victimization and they examined victimization on LRAT and the control variables (Parti).
Another way this article relates to social science is because it can relate to anthropology. Anthropology in simpler terms is the study of humanity (UC Davis). So when I analyze this article I see anthropology when looking at the analytical plan in the article. It was explaining the difference between the two main groups. The one group was people who were between the ages of 18-54 years old. Those people are people that were either raised around technology or came out in the younger year of their life. The second group of people was those who were 55+ years old. Those people are people who weren’t around technology in their upbringing so it was new to them. How it is anthropology is by showing the evolution of humans who were or weren’t raised around technology.
Lastly, how I see social science in this article is the use of economics. Economics in social sciences attempts to use the scientific method and apply it to the study of certain aspects of human behavior (Study Rocket). How I see it in the article by them using Table 1 is that they also broke it down into who had paid jobs, were unemployed, or retired.
When viewing the article to see how they did there develop their experiment there are many steps they took. To start their research question/what they were trying to understand is “how differently fraud works depending on a victim’s age, we have examined the effects of situational (lifestyle-routine activities), self-control, and sociodemographic variables on scam victimization across age groups” (Parti). One of the hypotheses made and was proven correct is that when scams evolve money people are more likely to become victimized. The type of research method used is similar to the scientific method. They had control, Independent, and dependent variables. The Independent variable was the questions asked in the survey they gave to the people. The dependent variable was the answers the people could choose. The control variable is the people’s sex, age, and other background information. How they analyzed the data by getting the feedback from the survey and converting it into ratios to the variables on the table.
This article relates to CYSE 201s because it talks about fraud and scamming. It also related to this class because often in class we talk about what kind of scams are most effective and that’s what it talks about too. The article speaks about antivirus software and firewall, which we also do speak about in the lecture. Another way it relates to CYSE 201s is when it speaks about having low control. Often in lectures, we speak about if low control will cause you to be scammed or be a scammer. Also, marginalized groups in the class spoke about how often senior citizens are the target of a lot of scammers. Lastly, another way this article relates to class is because one of the ways they categorized people is persons of below-average intelligence, which also follows under marginalized groups. How they did that by seeing what kind of schooling they had.
Overall this study was a great experiment. When looking at what I would personally change about it there isn’t much. I would change it so that when they sign up their test would go on for a month. During that month I would send them an email, call them, etc, like a scammer would to see if they would take the bait. But overall what they did to see how fraud works were just fine.
Works Cited
Case Western Reserve University. “What is Sociology? – Department of Sociology.” Department of Sociology, https://sociology.case.edu/what-is-sociology/. Accessed 11 February 2023.
Parti, Katalin. ““Elder Scam” Risk Profiles: Individual and Situational Factors of Younger and Older Age Groups’ Fraud Victimization.” Virtual Commons – Bridgewater State University, 1 November 2022, https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=ijcic. Accessed 11 February 2023.
Study Rocket. “Economics as a Social Science – A Level Economics A Edexcel Revision – Study Rocket.” Study Rocket, https://studyrocket.co.uk/revision/a-level-economics-a-edexcel/introduction-to-markets-and-market-failure/economics-as-a-social-science. Accessed 11 February 2023.
UC Davis. “What is Anthropology? — Anthropology.” UC Davis – Anthropology, https://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/what-is-anthropology. Accessed 11 February 2023.
The link to the article used is: https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=ijcic