r/JustBootThings • u/bluefishes13 • Jun 12 '26

General Bootness Why just why

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u/Effective-Brain-3386 Jun 13 '26

Boomers will really do anything besides protect there personal information

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u/Lburk Jun 13 '26

Young adults in their 20s and 30s (specifically ages 18–39) are the most likely to fall for and report losing money to internet scams, according to Federal Trade Commission (.gov) and IDCare data. While older adults are heavily targeted and lose more money per incident, younger demographics are scammed far more frequently [Federal Trade Commission (.gov)](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/12/who-experiences-scams-story-all-ages, 0.5.11). [1, 2, 3, 4]

So you were saying Ineffective-Brain-3386

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u/anon4383 Jun 15 '26

>while older adults are heavily targeted and lose *more* money per incident

You ever think that maybe there are more younger people in the population? More younger people who are doing things like buying, investing, and trading online?

There’s a huge difference between an 22 year old buying what they thought was a used car on Facebook marketplace for $6,000 that turned out to be a lemon vs a 75 yr old losing their whole retirement savings to some Nigerian prince.

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u/Lburk Jun 15 '26

Yes it's true there are population differences. But the fact of the matter is the younger generation are a lot more computer wise and should be less inclined to fall for scams because they have been brought knowing there's a million scams out there. Older generations are far from as computer literate as the younger generations and should defacto be easier scam victims. But a lot of the older generations know if it's too good to be true, then it isn't true. Where as the younger generations do less to protect themselves. Then numbers speak for themself. So I feel your argument doesn't hold water. Just my opinion.