Details

Editor

DeLiema, Marti [Browse]

Related name

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 39001. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 39001

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

The purpose of the study was to provide specific policy recommendations to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and other consumer protection agencies regarding the effectiveness of mass marketing elder fraud intervention.

Type of data

• administrative records data
• event/transaction data
• survey data

Time and place of event

Data collected 2021-07-01 through 2023-07-26

Funding information

Sponsored by United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice 2019-R2-CX-0053

Methodology note

Addresses nationwide identified by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service as having responded to mail fraud.

Contents

• Study-Level Files
• Survey Data
• Historic Scam Transaction Data
• Intervention Victim Records Data

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Provenance

2025-05-14 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks.

Cite as

Langton, Lynn, and DeLiema, Marti. Mass Marketing Elder Fraud Intervention, United States, 1999-2023. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-05-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39001.v1

Other title(s)

MMEFI

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