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Now do robo calling scams.
Robocalling or the “Hello! This is Sheriff/IRS! You will be arrested unless you pay us $200 in Amazon gift cards!”
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I would guess there's some pure exposure effect going on here. Gen Z are, almost to the person, constantly online. A lot of boomers rarely even check their email. They have more opportunities to be scammed online.
Kinda like how boomers are more likely than younger generations to sign into reverse mortgage scams partly because younger gens don't have houses.
Maybe, but anecdotally my boomer aunt bought over $1,000 of apple gift cards and gave the card numbers over the phone to the “Apple support” guy with a thick Indian accent to get her hacked iCloud Photos back so…. I would like to see the different kinds of scams that both generations fall for.
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Lol I “fall” for scams to waste their time between meetings while I’m working on other shit. I fuck with the scammers just to troll them, and I’m proud of that.
I love the ageism in this thread and online forums in general. When there's an article "boomers bad" everyone falls over themselves to agree. When there's an article that (ostensibly) points the opposite way we can't wait to tell anecdotes about how actually it's still the boomers that are bad. There are always good reasons for this or that perceived failing of the younger generations.
To be clear I'm not defending either "side" here. The whole generation war is a ridiculous nonsense, including drawing arbitrary "gen whatever" lines at specific years.) But it goes to show how easy we are to play with stupid simplistic headlines like this even though we, especially here in the "fediverse", like to think of ourselves as more rational / informed.
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I've heard romance scams are on the rise again due to the prevalence of online dating. If the hot girl you matched with starts asking you for money, or nudes (for extortion), or your mother's maiden name (for identity theft), she might not be the person you expect!
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Aren't late 1990s Millenials?
No, millenials end at around 1994-1996 last I checked. These generations are weird because as an early gen z (1999) I'm closer to the last millenials than to a genz that was born in like 2007.
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