Are Older Adults More Susceptible to Scams?

//Are Older Adults More Susceptible to Scams?

An article featured on NPR’s SHOTs wellness blog discussed recent study results that indicate that older adults are more susceptible to scams and identity fraud. The author mentioned that ” older adults rated the trustworthy faces and the neutral faces exactly the same as the younger adults did, but when it got to the cues of untrustworthiness, they didn’t process those cues as well.”

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2018-09-27T23:13:19-04:00

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