This piece was initially published on FFT Education Datalab's blog for April Fool's Day here by Dr John Jerrim. Datalab are a team of education data analysts, using statistics to inform policymaking and school practices.
Online fraud is very serious business. We are faced with it every day. Indeed, as I am writing this blog, I’ve just received an email from a prince from a far-off-land who has an “exciting” business opportunity he wishes to discuss with me…
I’m sure you have all received such emails as well: it is estimated that around 3.4 billion spam emails are sent every day. But how many young people are actually at risk of being duped by such a primitive digital scam?
Given that in many countries today is April Fools’ Day, essentially a day where we celebrate gullibility, let’s take a look.
