231
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
72 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Who are these kids under 20 with $14,000 to give out to scammers? Retirees with a spare $35k, I believe, but I'd really like to see the distribution for both. I'm guessing the means and medians are very different.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Got a point there, but it's what the sources say. One possibility might be that it's the teenagers that got scammed (or even just filing the complaint?), but their parents' accounts that got emptied. This part of the report is unfortunately really lacking in detailed descriptions of the data.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent