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How fraudsters target different generations

Independent Banker

“Gen Z, the younger generation, has transitioned into the workforce and is primarily being targeted through social media messages and chatbots,” Fratangelo says. Fraudsters typically target millennials via text messages that promise rewards, shipment tracking and other automated messages that make them vulnerable to phishing attacks.”.

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Is Sale Likely To Be Snapchat’s Next Move?

PYMNTS

Beloved by younger millennials and up-and-coming Generation Z members, Snapchat is the little social media engine that could in an era when it seemed the social media die had all been cast (and where Facebook won most of the rolls).

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5 Ways Ant Financial & Tencent’s Fintech Growth Playbooks Are Evolving

CB Insights

The first is the financial affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group , Ant Financial , valued at $150B. While Tencent groups the results of the division with business services (cloud and B2B services), fintech is now driving growth at the social media and gaming giant.

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Soda Wars Summer

PYMNTS

The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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Listen Up: Best PYMNTS Podcasts Of 2018

PYMNTS

Of that group, 84 percent report satisfactory experiences with contextual commerce. The $300 billion Financial Stress Tax. This dovetails well with millennials, who favor a prepaid, eWallet type of app that serves their lifestyles and ensures they “can go spend the money where [they] need to.”. Does #Donate Lead to #Buy?

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The Buyers: Hispanic Millennials’ Buying Power

PYMNTS

Millennials. Currently, this group makes up the largest generation living in the United States. million millennials, as reported by Pew Research Center , obtaining, maintaining and retaining consumers from this particular consumer segment is the golden ticket for retailers. This group is moving up fast in the retail world.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are. Crying foul over Google’s dominance in the EU , as Bing-funded opposition groups have done over the years, ignores the fact that consumers have a choice when it comes to search engines — and by and large they don’t choose Bing.

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