Customers miss fraud in their labels. Estimate true recall.

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Problem. A lender's dashboard shows Protect's recall at 57%: of 700 frauds last quarter, 400 were caught by Protect and 300 got through. But the 300 are only the frauds the lender labeled, and their labeling misses some fraud, especially first-party fraud written off as bad debt. How would you estimate Protect's true recall?

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