• chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Younger adults — Gen Z, millennials, and Gen X — are 34 percent more likely to report losing money to fraud compared with those over 60

    I think almost everyone gets scammed out of something... But there's a big difference between her and some kid sending a classmate 50$ on a money app for a bag of oregano or someone losing money in a relatively complicated financial scam like digital currencies, or even someone over 60 doing what she did. I don't think very many 39 year olds hand over 50K because someone who called who knew their social.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      A part of it as well is a lot of scams targeting the elderly are designed to be subtle and go on for years, so a retiree sending half their pension to a scammer every month might not even realise that they're being scammed and think they're being given a "home security service" or something, and so wouldn't report it.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      the biggest scam that's ever happened to me is like when CVS charges $1 more than walmart.

      • Dessa [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        After, presumably, the scam of the inherent labor theft of wage work