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Europeans have less money than Americans. Even if there are no differences in law or practice scammers are still going to make more money off the wealthier people.

I suppose in some sense we could jot that down as more regulations leading to less scamming.



This Global Anti-Scam Alliance website [1] says Americans, Danes and Swiss have the highest average scam amount, at $3520, $3067 and $2980.

But it also says Pakistan lost 4.2% of GDP to scams, vs 0.2% for Italy, Netherlands and France.

It looks like I'd need to register to see more details statistics.

[1] https://www.gasa.org/post/global-state-of-scams-report-2024-...


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Which is 100 since it has to be measured against a peer group.


does this technically mean that if humanity gets dumber overall as a group, 100 IQ (average) human would be dumber in that bleak future than they're now?




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