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Is this phishing? Older age is associated with greater difficulty discriminating between safe and fraudulent emails
2020-06-25
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<p>As our social worlds become increasingly digitally connected, so too has concern about older adults falling victim to so-called “phishing” emails, which attempt to deceive a person into identity theft and fraud. In 65 cognitively normal middle-aged to older adults, we investigated whether older age was associated with reduced accuracy in judging the suspiciousness of phishing and genuine emails that commonly po...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 41a93245-7ead-5214-b37d-753baa745e3b
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/upf6c