LONDON, May 3 ― We often imagine that the victims of scams are older people, who are less internet savvy. But this may not be the case. A new study reveals that a quarter of Britons aged 18 to 34 are not sufficiently suspicious of fraudulent e-mails and text messages.
Scams can seem easy to spot, especially if you know how to recognize them. And the first clue is spelling mistakes. Messages intended to extract money or confidential information from users are often riddled with spelling errors. However, typos do not arouse the suspicion of young Britons, as Visa and the Institute for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University found in a report on online fraud.
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