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In the Wall Street Journal, Stacey Wood, Molly Mason Jones Chair in Psychology and professor of psychology, discussed online get-rich-quick scams that are targeted at young people. As the prominence of social media influencers has risen, so has the number of get-rich-quick scams deployed through messages on social media platforms such as Instagram. Wood suggested that warnings on possibly fraudulent direct messages, such as “adding a flag, or indicator of risk—like I get email banners warning me of suspicious emails,” might mitigate these scams’ success rates.