Low Self-Control and Fraud

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‘Bought it, but Never Got it’ Assessing Risk Factors for Online Consumer Fraud Victimization (2013, background): “Indeed, Reisig, Pratt and Holtfreter (2009) offer support for the self-control exposure link with their finding that financially impulsive people made more online purchases than others, even despite the fact they also perceived higher risks of Internet theft.”
Investigating the Effects of Media Consumption on Attitudes Toward Police Legitimacy (2018, methodology): “This scale has been used in previous research on college student samples and has been shown to be a valid and reliable construct on measuring self-control (Holtfreter et al. 2010).”
Online Routines and Identity Theft Victimization (2013, background): “…studies have identified low self-control, routine activities, and victim characteristics as important correlates of fraud victimization (e.g., Holtfreter et al. 2008, 2010; Titus, Heinzelmann, and Boyle 1995; van Wilsem 2011), underscoring the need for similar work with identity theft…”