Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2021 Oct 30;76(9):1711-1715. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa228.
As our social worlds become increasingly digitally connected, so too has concern about older adults falling victim to "phishing" emails, which attempt to deceive a person into identity theft and fraud. In the present study, we investigated whether older age is associated with differences in perceived suspiciousness of phishing emails.
Sixty-five cognitively normal middle-aged to older adults rated a series of genuine and phishing emails on a scale from definitely safe to definitely suspicious.
Although older age was not related to a shift in overall perception of email safety, older age was related to worse discrimination between genuine and phishing emails, according to perceived suspiciousness.
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.
随着我们的社交世界日益数字化，人们越来越担心老年人成为“网络钓鱼”电子邮件的受害者，这些电子邮件试图欺骗个人进行身份盗窃和欺诈。在本研究中，我们调查了老年人对网络钓鱼电子邮件的可疑感知是否存在差异。
65 名认知正常的中老年参与者对一系列真实和网络钓鱼电子邮件进行了评分，范围从绝对安全到绝对可疑。
尽管年龄与整体电子邮件安全感知没有关系，但根据可疑感知，年龄与真实和网络钓鱼电子邮件之间的区分能力较差有关。
这些发现表明，认知正常的老年人可能由于与年龄相关的对电子邮件可信度的敏感性降低，而特别容易受到在线欺诈的风险。
