Current Events > Why is Gen Z more vulnerable to scamming than previous generations?

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Ive never once seen a timeshare victim that wasnt a boomer.

Wandering__Hero posted...

Citation needed

Wow, this was just posted an hour ago. How timely.

https://www.techspot.com/news/100277-gen-z-falls-victim-online-scams-more-often.html

They dont like to listen to you when you tell them they are falling for an obvious scam.

No matter how gently you put it, they feel like you are jealous of their golden opportunity or something.

Then when it happens and you say "I told you so" they get real asshurt and say you are victim blaming them.

Its best to just let them fall for a crypto scam or something and have them learn from it naturally.

More online pressence + lack of cynicism

This also comes up in online challenges. Things that are meant to be absurd jokes like eating tide pods, become a reality because some kids were too dumb. In contrast, slightly older generations accuse everything of being fake as their knee jerk reaction.

Priere posted...

They dont like to listen to you when you tell them they are falling for an obvious scam.

No matter how gently you put it, they feel like you are jealous of their golden opportunity or something.

Then when it happens and you say "I told you so" they get real asshurt and say you are victim blaming them.

Its best to just let them fall for a crypto scam or something and have them learn from it naturally.

That doesn't sound endemic to young people, I feel like anyone would give you that response if they convinced themselves it was legitimate.

They're younger.

By the time they're old enough to be bitching about how lame Gen Beta is, they will have learned their lesson.

More accounts mean they're more likely to get hacked. It's that simple. Older generations are still more gullible to scams.

Well the article you posted literally lists some reasons that could explain it.

Why don't you read it?

This is the generation of youths trying to get rich quick. Which necessitates a higher degree of risk taking then the boomers who didn't have as strong a desire or need to do so.

And is why scams like crypto was able to take off as easily as it did on top of its aggressive marketing and little to no regulations on them.

If this the responses to the survey are all self reported then how are we so sure we can reliably trust those numbers? Maybe the boomers don't even recognize that they're being scammed in the first place and that's why they're so low compared to Gen Z. These are the same people that keep on going bankrupt because they won't stop giving their money to a billionaire to help him pay his legal fees.

Ar0ge posted...

Well the article you posted literally lists some reasons that could explain it.

Why don't you read it?

Because it's professionally written and isn't willing to use the harsh language that users of an online forum might to accurately describe such individuals.

Few months back a young lad at work tried to MLM me into joining a blatant ponzi scheme under the guise of Forex trading

He just was not willing to listen to reason

More often than boomers? No shot

Priere posted...

They dont like to listen to you when you tell them they are falling for an obvious scam.

No matter how gently you put it, they feel like you are jealous of their golden opportunity or something.

Then when it happens and you say "I told you so" they get real asshurt and say you are victim blaming them.

Its best to just let them fall for a crypto scam or something and have them learn from it naturally.

Not sure why you're framing this as a pure "Gen Z" thing.
I've known plenty of older people who chose to partake in obvious scams and are too stubborn to listen to reason and accept that they've falling for some scheme.

cuz zoomers are dumb lol

Kitt posted...

Not sure why you're framing this as a pure "Gen Z" thing.
I've known plenty of older people who chose to partake in obvious scams and are too stubborn to listen to reason and accept that they've falling for some scheme.

I see it way more often with zoomers. Check out the scam subreddits and see how they fall for the most obvious shit.

A vast majority of the steam scams and sextortion scams are zoomers.

More boomers are targetting them

what a shitpost

Does watching those 10 minute videos where nothing happens count as a scam?

lilORANG posted...

Does watching those 10 minute videos where nothing happens count as a scam?

It should

alphagamble posted...

Few months back a young lad at work tried to MLM me into joining a blatant ponzi scheme under the guise of Forex trading

He just was not willing to listen to reason

MLM?

I've heard of m'lem... what is what pet birds do.

https://youtube.com/shorts/3WqnSYYAIZw

The results of walled garden environments. They were raised with technology that was scrubbed of risks, so they do not know the risks. How could they? Nothing quite like the good ole days of infesting your PC with the limewire virus and having to reinstall a clean copy of the OS to purge the PC of the illness.

Solid_Sonic posted...

Wow, this was just posted an hour ago. How timely.

https://www.techspot.com/news/100277-gen-z-falls-victim-online-scams-more-often.html

There's a lot of tech literacy and safety that we were inundated with that gen z wasn't. There isn't a huge push to change that either, which is a shame.

Kimberly posted...

There isn't a huge push to change that either, which is a shame.

And that makes me concerned with regards to employability since so many well paying jobs are in the tech sector. The only other high paying jobs are hard labor with huge risks at loss of life. Everything else doesn't pay enough.

Kimberly posted...

There's a lot of tech literacy and safety that we were inundated with that gen z wasn't. There isn't a huge push to change that either, which is a shame.

Yeah. At my job i worked with a lot of gen z grads... and they just weren't as good with tech as millenials. Just a general lack of understanding and education that we got one way or another. Obviously speaking in generalities tho -- you got smart people and dumb people across generations.

An enormous amount of armchair psychology being attempted in this thread when the clear explanation is succinctly put in the article:

Probably the main reason why younger people are falling victim to these scams is that they're simply online a lot more. But there are other, less obvious explanations. Their reliance on technology, for example, increases the chances that they'll run into a convincing email or ad that's really a scam.

Personally I like studying scamming but it is pretty depressing the way some people fall victim (especially when it involves, what seems to me, stupid shit like sending a picture of your balls to someone whose only identification to you was a photo that they stole off Instagram).

Validation and due diligence seems to be the real failing of this generation. Taking things for granted on an anonymous platform like the Internet seems highly inept from my point of view.