The many faces of online scams - four key deceptions targeted at children

Shekhawat, Gazal and Özkul, Didem ORCID: 0000-0002-7889-8020 (2025) The many faces of online scams - four key deceptions targeted at children. Media@LSE (10 Feb 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

When many people think about online scams, they think about financial scams targeted at older people, or at adults in general. However, children are also the targets of deceptive behaviour online. Here, Gazal Shekhawat and Didem Özkul of the Digital Futures for Children centre review the evidence around some of the ways that children might be manipulated or deceived in the online world.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2025 11:36
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2025 11:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127699

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