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Sociology, Computer Science
2023 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research…
It is found that users who post on music boards post significantly less criminal content elsewhere on the forum, however when broken down by crime type they are significantly more likely to post about eWhoring and trading credentials than other forum users.
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Computer Science, Sociology
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