Scammed! How Gen Z Gets Taken
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When you think of the people who get scammed online most often, who comes to mind?
Maybe you thought about Baby Boomers, since they're not typically as comfortable with technology. Wrong. In fact Gen Z -- those in their teens and twenties -- get scammed more than three times as often, according to a new survey by 德勤 .
There are a few different reasons for that, as I discovered in my new column for Reuters . To help protect your kids who might be going off to college, and are getting swarmed with new scams every single day, check out a few helpful tips here:
One Great Thing: My favorite credit card
The Wall Street Journal 's Buy Side vertical has an ongoing series called "One Great Thing," which looks at products and services that are actually helpful and do what they say they're going to do. (Yes they exist!)
So when they asked me for an idea, one came to mind: My Marriott Hotels / 万豪酒店 -branded credit card from Chase . It's been a big help to me as I go visit my kid in his new college town, and run the occasional marathon where I need someplace to stay.
So check out why I like this particular credit card, and enjoy a little parental angst thrown in for good measure:
Odd Couple: Journalists and PR reps
You would think that journalists and public relations folks would understand each other pretty well. We're all in the communications business, we can tell a good story when we see one, we know how to get our point across in a way that others can't.
But there's a chasm there, in terms of not really grasping what the other is going through on a daily basis. (One example is that the ratio of PR reps to journalists has got to be something like 10-to-1 these days, which makes it impossible to reply to everybody. It just can't be done -- Sorry!)
So Nicole Schuman of PRNEWS interviewed me for an informative piece on how sources can get their voices heard and establish credibility, and how journalists and PR folks can be helpful to each other. Here it is:
Jobs of the Week
As usual there seems to be a whole lot of turmoil in the media biz, the Washington Post being the latest outlet in an endless series of job-trimming. Oy vey.
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Thankfully there are a bunch of interesting openings out there for those who find themselves on the wrong end of a layoff:
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Great info on GenZ getting scammed. My son started college a few years ago and he entered his cell phone number on one of the many student profile areas online. His number must have sold or shared because he started getting crazy text messages for all kinds of scams with scare tactics urging him to act now before it was too late. Once we removed his phone number from the profile, and put a block on his phone, they all ended. Teens and Young adults are so used to doing everything on their phone that they have become the new target.