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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Technology
Andrew Young

Over half of adults think they will never fall victim to scams - but know someone who has

More than half of adults think they’ll never fall victim to a scam – despite 43% knowing someone who has.

A study of 2,000 Brits found 52% are confident they’ll never be caught out by a fraudulent text message or email – as they don’t reuse the same password on multiple sites (29%), and keep their social media accounts private (22%).

A naïve 16% simply think “it won’t happen to me”, while 17% feel people are stupid to fall for scams.

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