'Millennials fall for tech scams more than grandparents'
NEW YORK: Millennials, often portrayed as tech-savvy, are actually more likely to fall for technology-related scams on the internet and over the phone than their grandparents, a new survey has found.
The technological survey of about 1,000 adults from 12 countries suggests that older users are less likely to fall for tech support scams than their grandchildren, 'Live Science' reported.
The survey by research firm Ipsos Public Affairs and Microsoft found that on a global scale, just 20 per cent of respondents took the scams seriously and only nine per cent lost money to them.
As many as 27 per cent of those aged 18-24 fell for a scam, with 13 per cent of them losing money. A staggering 32 per cent (nearly one-third) of those in the 25-34 age group fell for a scam and 18 per cent of them lost money, the survey found.
The participants who were over 66 years old were harder to deceive. While they encountered phone, e-mail and pop-up scams at roughly the same rates as their younger counterparts, they heard out scammers only 11 per cent of the time, and fell for them only three per cent of the time.