Do scammers target older people more than younger?

Once you hit 55 you become easy prey. You grow more gullible with each year, and are easily confused by changes in technology. You’re increasingly likely to believe email threats and act when faced with them. And you’ve left so many footprints over the web that stealing your email and password is almost embarrassingly easy.

That’s what scammers think, anyway. It’s long) from Google and Stanford University into what kind of people are targeted by phishing found that your chance of being attacked increases as you get older, with those between 55 and 64 being 1.64 times more at risk than 18-24-year-olds.