Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.

  • wowbagger@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Did you even bother to skim the article? That’s literally the first reason they give:

    There are a few theories that seem to come up again and again. First, Gen Z simply uses technology more than any other generation and is therefore more likely to be scammed via that technology.

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      1 year ago

      They acknowledge their bias but don’t account for it in their numbers, smells like statistics manipulation to me