Cybercrimeology

Goldphish memories: Aging and susceptibility to fraud

Episode Summary

Our guest this episode is Dr. Natalie Ebner, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida. She has been researching the psychology of aging and in particular how that aging can have an impact on susceptibility to online fraud and spam.

Episode Notes

Find out more about the researcher:

https://people.clas.ufl.edu/natalieebner/

Papers Mentioned in this show:

Ebner, N. C., Ellis, D. M., Lin, T., Rocha, H. A., Yang, H., Dommaraju, S., & Oliveira, D. S. (2018). Uncovering susceptibility risk to online deception in aging. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.

http://www.daniela.ece.ufl.edu/Research_files/gerontology18.pdf

 

More to read:

 

Lin, T., Capecci, D. E., Ellis, D. M., Rocha, H. A., Dommaraju, S., Oliveira, D. S., & Ebner, N. C. (2019). Susceptibility to Spear-Phishing Emails: Effects of Internet User Demographics and Email Content. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 26(5), 1-28.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3336141

Oliveira, D.S., Lin, T., Rocha, H. et al. Empirical analysis of weapons of influence, life domains, and demographic-targeting in modern spam: an age-comparative perspective. Crime Sci 8, 3 (2019) doi:10.1186/s40163-019-0098-8

https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-019-0098-8

 

The intro from this show is from an educational video from the Prelinger Archives.  https://archive.org/details/prelinger