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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
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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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.