Bantay kay nagsuyong sila pirme sa ila smart phones!
It
can never be denied that there are online predators these days. When the
internet flourished, these people started making it as a weapon of control,
manipulation and even distorting the truth.
The
site exploringyourmind.com reported
that predators have been perfecting their paths to crime with the new
information technologies that have emerged. Using social networks, chat rooms,
or forums allows anyone to quickly contact a lot of people. These spaces make
it easier for these people of bad intents to select their victims. It also
makes it easier for them to fabricate credible lies.
One
of the things that they do is project a perfect image on social media sites.
There are tendencies that they post pictures alongside credible personalities
for them to have some sort of a front. It is like name-dropping during
conversations.
Once
they can establish some sort of an image, they attack.
Fraud
activities can cause irreversible financial losses (Kircanski et al., 2018) and
can also lead to negative emotions, such as depression and anxiety, and
psychological pressure, such as anger, self-blame and shame, in older adult
victims (Button et al., 2014).
Why do millions of older adults continue to
encounter online fraud despite rigorous, comprehensive programs designed to
prevent and control fraudulent internet activities, widespread education on the
use of technology and other methods to avoid being defrauded? Are older adults
more likely to become victims of fraud?
According
to traditional fraud theory (Johnson et al., 2001; Zhang, 2016), the
victimization process in online fraud comprises four stages (fraudulent online
messages → assessment of information authenticity → trust generation →
decision-making errors). Individuals' attention and processing patterns toward
fraud clues are related to the likelihood of success in this four-stage fraud
theory (Gao,2021).
Most
of the fraudulent figures are brilliant and have skewed motivations on
materialistic tendencies. They believe that online scamming is the path to their
ambitious journeys. They spend a lot of time profiling their victims and their
attacks are really scientific moves to make the victims fall prey.
We need to watch out. Our online friends might be lurking behind the shadows of the social media sites waiting for their time to snatch our peace.
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