While speaking about cyberspace and cybercrimes, the end users can be easily divided in two categories – digital natives and digital migrants. Digital natives are those who grew up with the internet, while digital migrants are mostly the older generation, who have to learn and adopt digital ways of life.
Due to this basic difference, we also assume that digital migrants are more likely to be victims of cybercrimes compared with younger generations.
However, a survey of 1,000 people, mostly from the US, shows that millennials — 24 to 34 and 35 to 44 — were significantly more likely to have fallen for a scam due to their higher exposure online.
Millennials Most Likely To Fall for Online Scams
“There is a common conception that millennials are the first digital natives and therefore are super tech savvy. And while that is at least partially true — younger millennials in particular were the first to grow up with the internet and therefore, as a group, tend to know more about it than Gen X or the boomers — it also means that this age group likely has spent and currently spends the most time online in more capacities,” Avast says.
Generation X, or Gen X, refers to the generation born between the mid-1960s and the early-1980s.
The reason as to why millennials…
