99% of people who fall for tech scams deserve it, amirite?

Considering that OP hasn't learned the tactics of any scam since the second season of The Office aired, he'd probably be a primo target for a scam.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, people over the age of 65 are disproportionately effected by scams. They only make up about 18% of the population, but account for about half of the money lost to scams.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

OP said they know it's old people and don't care lol scams will only get better with AI. They're coming for us in our old age too.

by Jerdman 1 month ago

victim blaming is bad

by No-Vacation 1 month ago

A thousand blessings to you

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Eh, I'd love to agree except we had internet 30 years ago. Kind of tiring to give people a perpetual pass on learning the bare-basics of technology when it existed when they were in their freaking 30's.

by Inside-Apricot2027 1 month ago

Yeah the internet just developed all at once and 80 year olds should have learned about all these scams back in their 50s and been prepared for all this.

by Difficult_Wheel_590 1 month ago

Right?!? Plus many of those 50-year-olds never worked in jobs where they were afforded any computer literacy at all. When I see a member of today's older population being knowledgeable about tech, they usually had a job that exposed them to computers in some way.

by Wonderful-Option 1 month ago

Also everyone, even young people, know a dopey friend who just would fall for something or has low comprehension/literacy with these things. I don't think anyone would say their friend deserves to be scammed out of their hard earned money or something. The guy expects people to know ‘bare-basics' about things without realizing there are tons of good people out there who aren't even at that level, at no fault to them lol

by Difficult_Wheel_590 1 month ago

Fully agree. I had a client with a brother who fully fell for the crypto romance scam. Some people aren't equipped to analyze these things as critically. Plus, more often than not, loneliness comes into play. That can really mess with a person and cloud their judgement.

by Wonderful-Option 1 month ago

Not saying falling for a scam is impossible. Just that most of the scams yoy see people falling for show they have two brain cells fighting for third place. Not even saying I will never fall for one, but I can guarantee that if zendaya messages me and says she needs $3000 in fart coin to save her hamster, I'm not falling for it

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

I hope you have a pocket full of perpetual passes in your old age, I hope your awareness and health never declines.

by Jerdman 1 month ago

Finally someone gets it. I am not talking about the people with mental disabilities that they have no control over. Im not looking at a stroke victim or someone with Alzheimer's and calling them an idiot. I'm talking about the people in their right mind who just refuse to learn the bare minimum about something that is a part of everyday life.

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

You can only warn the same person so many times. After awhile it gets tedious and leads nowhere.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The largest demographic for scams is senior citizens btw

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I say this knowing that. If a amazon tribe cut off from civilation for decades can learn how to use a phone in 1 year, gam gam can learn to not give her ssn to first person that calls claiming to be from MS

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

Ok but Alzheimers. Also, do you live in 2004? That's not how most scans work anymore.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

gam gam might have dementia though...

by No-Vacation 1 month ago

They are part of the 1% that get a pass

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

This is likely because most of the scams that really make the rounds of the internet are wildly absurd stories. People who send tens of thousands of dollars to someone they've never even met in person, or people handing over card details to save the frogs or something like that. Noone deserves to be scammed, but good lord are some victims proper specimens of technical natural selection at work

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, nobody is going to click on a article about a dude who had his identity stolen after he clicked on a hyperlink that looked like a Google Docs link. It's just not that interesting.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah, old religious people had it comin'

by Domenicamcclure 1 month ago

BS. Just because someone is stupid doesn't mean they deserve to be scammed.

by DressFinancial 1 month ago

Stupidity needs to be punished.

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

Why?

by DressFinancial 1 month ago

Because having to deal with stupidity on a regular basis just makes society worse

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

And how would "punishing" them change anything for the better?

by DressFinancial 1 month ago

I'm not talking about the high end ones that anyone could fall for. I'm talking about the ones where Brad pitt sends u a link to totally not a scam . Com and ask for your bank password

by Regular-Tangerine 1 month ago

Again, anyone can let their guard down for a half a second. Brains are not always 100% on guard, all it takes is a bad day, a cold, lack of sleep and someone is firing at 20% their normal ability. SCams dont work because they are good, they work by firing out MILLIONS of shots and hitting a few people by sheer luck.

by rozellaleffler 1 month ago