Re: Granny - Pew Research about Online Scams, granny is far less likely to lose her account (15%) than an 18-29 year old (26%). If she's upper income and white even less likely. Similar trends with falling for large numbers of scams. People who've had 3+, granny (19%), 18-26 year olds (24%). [1] The survey notably has the same perception results. Society views the youth as mostly immune from scams (believe only 22%), yet fall victim to them (26%), while worrying about old people (believe 84% fall for them), who actually don't fall victim that often (15%).

Most of the time, re: granny, women are targeted a much greater amount because of supposed weakness and vulnerability (report 2/3, victim 2/3), yet males send much larger amounts of money. ($112 vs $205) [2] Too be fair though, old people do tend to lose more with scams. Granny would probably lose $300 on average vs $113 for a 18-24. Conflicting numbers on the money #'s though, so some of that depends on which survey you ask.

Old people also tend to write each other a lot of cautionary warning stories such as the AARP article on Stan Lee's swindling in old age (security guard, "senior adviser", "protector", and daughter). [3]

Old people get a bunch of grief, yet old people are actually less likely to fall for the scams.

Also, if she's a retiree in Miami Beach, more likely to be targeted (Adak, AK; Deepwater, NJ; then Miami Beach, FL are the worst for scams.)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/07/31/online-scams...

[2] https://bbbmarketplacetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/N...

[3] https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/stan-lee-elde...