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New Dataset Tracks AI-Assisted Scam Trends on Reddit

Researchers have developed a new dataset and methodology to analyze online scam trends and their progression over time, using self-disclosure narratives from Reddit between 2023 and 2025. The study collected over 21,000 posts, with 1,800 posts further annotated using an LLM-assisted approach to understand scam path complexity. Findings indicate that scams are typically multi-rail, with different scam types and components dominating across the years, and that community support behaviors in comments have become more detailed over time. This work aims to support synthetic scam data simulation and AI-related scam risk assessment. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yangjun Zhang, Mirko Bottarelli, Mark Hooper, Carsten Maple ·

    Understanding Scam Trends and Rail Paths from Reddit Self-Disclosure Narratives

    arXiv:2606.16874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online scam behavior is inherently multi-stage, and the lifecycle includes temporally ordered rails and events rather than isolated signals. Existing works analyze characteristics of scam types and rails, but they do not track scam …

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Carsten Maple ·

    Understanding Scam Trends and Rail Paths from Reddit Self-Disclosure Narratives

    Online scam behavior is inherently multi-stage, and the lifecycle includes temporally ordered rails and events rather than isolated signals. Existing works analyze characteristics of scam types and rails, but they do not track scam trends across years. Moreover, the work on the r…