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Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet.

If you’re part of Generation Z — that is, born sometime between the late 1990s and early 2010s — you or one of your friends may have been the target or victim of an online scam. In fact, according to a recent Deloitte survey, members of Gen Z fall for these scams and get hacked far more frequently than their grandparents do.

Compared to older generations, younger generations have reported higher rates of victimization in phishing, identity theft, romance scams, and cyberbullying. The Deloitte survey shows that Gen Z Americans were three times more likely to get caught up in an online scam than boomers were (16 percent and 5 percent, respectively). Compared to boomers, Gen Z was also twice as likely to have a social media account hacked (17 percent and 8 percent). Fourteen percent of Gen Z-ers surveyed said they’d had their location information misused, more than any other generation. The cost of falling for those scams may also be surging for younger people: Social Catfish’s 2023 report on online scams found that online scam victims under 20 years old lost an estimated $8.2 million in 2017. In 2022, they lost $210 million.

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[–] xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Now do robo calling scams.

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[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

another article where gen X doesn't exist.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's for the best. We are the latchkey generation.

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't know if it's because of some of the illegal sites/software I've downloaded, but I've been getting occasional emails for sex with Ukrainian women and just sex emails in general for a while. And yes I fall under the gen z category despite calling myself a millennial.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aren't late 1990s Millenials?

[–] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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