Anything past boomer should be more tech literate so your average "Saudi Oil Prince money transfer" or "Ukrainian Girls" scam should be just background noise at this point.
At the same time the e-mail scams I receive recently would be something I'd fall for if I weren't a cynical git.
I'm talking perfectly timed emails from retailers right after I made a recent purchase that warns me about account closure or vouchers.
I usually dismiss it as just end-game of absolute data gathering on everything I do online but I'm not so sure anymore.
I think a big part is that GenZ uses the internet to socialize with people they know in realy life much more than Millenials did.
When we first got the internet, everyone was a stranger and we got used to treating them as such. Even now, I don't really take anything online seriously unless I can verify it some other way, and I assume that anyone with my personal info has mined it, rather than actually knowing me.
But GenZ (and Boomers, too) use the internet to talk to their real world friends over facebool or instagram, so they have the idea that people they "meet" online are legitimate and not some dude in a call center in India.
Or it could just be that they both use Meta products and that's where the scams are coming from...
It's a wierd situation.
Anything past boomer should be more tech literate so your average "Saudi Oil Prince money transfer" or "Ukrainian Girls" scam should be just background noise at this point.
At the same time the e-mail scams I receive recently would be something I'd fall for if I weren't a cynical git.
I'm talking perfectly timed emails from retailers right after I made a recent purchase that warns me about account closure or vouchers.
I usually dismiss it as just end-game of absolute data gathering on everything I do online but I'm not so sure anymore.
Anyone recommends a free anti-vir?
I think a big part is that GenZ uses the internet to socialize with people they know in realy life much more than Millenials did.
When we first got the internet, everyone was a stranger and we got used to treating them as such. Even now, I don't really take anything online seriously unless I can verify it some other way, and I assume that anyone with my personal info has mined it, rather than actually knowing me.
But GenZ (and Boomers, too) use the internet to talk to their real world friends over facebool or instagram, so they have the idea that people they "meet" online are legitimate and not some dude in a call center in India.
Or it could just be that they both use Meta products and that's where the scams are coming from...