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In the Media: In Wall Street Journal, Stacey Wood Discusses Online Scams Targeted at Young People

In the Wall Street Journal, Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, online get-rich-quick scams that are targeted at young people. As the prominence of social media influencers has risen, so has the number of get-rich-quick scams deployed through messages on social media platforms such as Instagram. Wood suggested that warnings on possibly fraudulent direct messages, such as “adding a flag, or indicator of risk鈥攍ike I get email banners warning me of suspicious emails,” might mitigate these scams’ success rates.

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