I’m also curious about what their threshold for being “victimized” by romance scams is. I’ve wasted time chatting with romance scammers (both bots and ones with real people responding to messages), but haven’t ever given them or their shady sites my CC info, would I count as a “victim”?
Comment on Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Compared to older generations, younger generations have reported higher rates of victimization in phishing, identity theft, romance scams, and cyberbullying.
Why include cyber bullying?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Why include cyber bullying?
I believe they mean something like being victim in a case of someone extorting them by threatening to leak photos/videos?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
That’s still not mixable with scams.
gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 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.
Steve@communick.news 1 year ago
Yah, that really seems out of place with the rest of the list. How does one “fall for” cyberbullying? Where’s the scam?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe being bullied into compliance?
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Well, the quoted section doesn’t say falling for. It says reports victimization.