Is This Phishing? Older Age Is Associated With Greater Difficulty Discriminating Between Safe and Malicious Emails.
Matthew D GrilliKatelyn S McVeighZiad M HakimAubrey A WankSarah J GetzBonnie E LevinNatalie C EbnerRobert C WilsonPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2021)
These findings suggest that cognitively normal older adults may be at particular risk for online fraud because of an age-associated reduction in their sensitivity to the credibility of emails.