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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.

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 1 year ago

Compared to older generations, younger generations have reported higher rates of victimization in phishing, identity theft, romance scams, and cyberbullying.

Why include cyber bullying?

[-] Steve@communick.news 47 points 1 year ago

Yah, that really seems out of place with the rest of the list. How does one "fall for" cyberbullying? Where's the scam?

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe being bullied into compliance?

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Well, the quoted section doesn't say falling for. It says reports victimization.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm also curious about what their threshold for being "victimized" by romance scams is. I've wasted time chatting with romance scammers (both bots and ones with real people responding to messages), but haven't ever given them or their shady sites my CC info, would I count as a "victim"?

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Why include cyber bullying?

I believe they mean something like being victim in a case of someone extorting them by threatening to leak photos/videos?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's still not mixable with scams.

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I think some of these just overlap. For example there can be a scammer pretending to be someone who is not. Then the victim may share content that wouldn't share otherwise. Then the scammer extortions the victim by threatening to leak content in the victim's social circle.

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